Deidre A. Hunter is an American astronomer at
Lowell Observatory
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. Her primary research area is tiny irregular galaxies — their origins, evolution and star-formation properties. She uses many parts of the
electromagnetic spectrum, and includes spectroscopy in her approach.
Education
Hunter's BS is from the University of Arizona (1975) and her PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois in 1982. Her thesis was on the star-forming properties of irregular galaxies. It earned an award from the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Career
Hunter was a postdoctoral fellow at
Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. She joined Lowell Observatory in 1986. Hunter ran Lowell’s Native Americans Astronomy Outreach Program for 25 years, sharing astronomy with 4th-8th grade Navajo and Hopi teachers and their classes.
Awards and honors
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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.American Astronomical Society
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’s 2014 Education Prize, partly for her involvement with Lowell's outreach program.
* Elected a Legacy Fellow of the
American Astronomical Society
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in 2020.
Research
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See also
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Dwarf galaxies
References
External links
LITTLE Things publications
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American astronomers
21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American astronomers
University of Arizona alumni
University of Illinois alumni
Fellows of the American Astronomical Society
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