Claude R. Canizares is an American physicist who stepped down June 30, 2015 from his post as Vice President of MIT. He remains the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at

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and associate director for MIT of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center.

Academic career

Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from

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. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the physics faculty in 1974. In 1984, he was made a full professor. From 1990 to 2002, Canizares was the director of MIT's Center for Space Research (now known as the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research). In 2002, he was appointed associate provost and vice president for research. He left the associate provostship and VPR positions to become VP in 2013. Canizares is also the principal investigator for the

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's High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer instrument. He was elected a

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in 1989 for ''"pioneering investigations in x-ray astrophysics, particularly in the analysis of astrophysical plasmas by high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy"''

Selected publications

Canizares is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers. * "Simulating the X-ray Forest" T Fang, GL Bryan, and C.R. Canizares
''ApJ'' 564, 604 (2002) * "The High Resolution X-ray Spectrum of SS 433 using the Chandra HETGS" H.L Marshall, C.R. Canizares and N.S. Schulz
''ApJ'' 564, 941-952 (2002) * "A High Resolution X-ray Image of the Jet in M 87" H.L. Marshall, B.P. Miller, D.S. Davis, E.S. Perlman, M. Wise, C.R. Canizares, D.E. Harris, J.A. Biretta
''ApJ'' 564, 683-687 (2002) * "Resolving the Composite Fe K-alpha Emission Line in the Galactic Black Hole Cygnus X-1 with Chandra" J.M. Miller, A.C. Fabian, R. Wijnands, R.A. Remillard, P. Wojdowski, N.S. Schulz, T. Di Matteo, H.L. Marshall, C.R. Canizares, D. Pooley, W.H.G. Lewin
''ApJ'' submitted, February 2002. * "High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Multiphase Interstellar Medium toward Cyg X-2" Y.Yao, N.S. Shulz, M.F. Gu, M.A. Nowak and C.R. Canizares
''ApJ'' 696, (2) 1418-1430 (2009) * ""X-ray Emission and Corona of the Young Intermediate Mass Binary q1 Ori E." D.P. Huenemoerder, N.S. Schulz, P. Testa, A.Kesich, C.R. Canizares
''ApJ'' 707, 942-953 (2009) * "Confirmation of X-Ray Absorption by WHIM in the Sculptor Wall" T.Fang, D.A. Buote, P.J. Humphrey, C.R. Canizares, L. Zappacosta, R.Maiolino
''ApJ'' 714, 1715-1724 (2010)

References

External links

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MIT Press Release Nov. 25, 2014

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