Charles David Bailyn (born October 27, 1959) is the

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Professor of Astronomy and Physics at

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and inaugural dean of faculty at

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Education

He earned a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale in 1981 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard in 1987. His Ph.D. thesis on X-ray emitting binary stars received the

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and

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and he has published over 100 referred papers. During spring 2007, Bailyn recorded ASTR 160, Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, as part of the

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initiative. Bailyn also recorded three updates to the course more than five years later on the subjects of extra-solar planets, black holes, and dark energy. On July 6, 2016, Yale announced that Bailyn would become the first head of the new

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, which opened in 2017.

Recognition

Bailyn was awarded the 2009

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for his research on the masses of black holes.

Family

His father was historian Bernard Bailyn.

References

External links

Frontiers and Controversies in AstroPhysics
video course by Professor Bailyn at

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