Charles David Bailyn (born October 27, 1959) is the
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (; April 4, 1938 – September 1, 1989) was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Giamatti served as Commiss ...
He earned a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale in 1981 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 1987. His Ph.D. thesis on X-ray emitting binary stars received the
Robert J. Trumpler Award
The Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is given annually to a recent recipient of the Ph.D degree whose thesis is judged particularly significant to astronomy.high-energy astronomy and galactic astronomy and he has published over 100 referred papers.
During spring 2007, Bailyn recorded ASTR 160, Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics, as part of the Open Yale Courses 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
Benjamin Franklin College
Benjamin Franklin College is a residential college for undergraduates of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. It opened to students for the 2017 academic year.
History
In 2008, Yale University President Rick Levin announced that the col ...
, which opened in 2017.
Recognition
Bailyn was awarded the 2009 Bruno Rossi Prize for his research on the masses of black holes.
Family
His father was historian
Bernard Bailyn
Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Pri ...