Bernard Haisch

 

Bernard Haisch

Bernard Haisch, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist and author of over 130 scientific publications. He served as a scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal for ten years, and was Principal Investigator on several NASA research projects. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Haisch did postdoctoral research at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. His professional positions include Staff Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory; Deputy Director of the Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching, Germany. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. Prior to his career in astrophysics, Haisch attended the Latin School of Indianapolis and the St. Meinrad Seminary as a student for the Catholic priesthood. He is married, with three children, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marsha Sims.

Haisch Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

  • Featured Article

    Steward Application Draft

    The Digital Universe The Digital Universe is a network of subject-specific websites (called Portals) with reliable information from trusted sources covering a wide range of subjects. It is being...

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    Detecting Extrasolar Planets

    The first detection of extrasolar planets was announced in 1995 by two competing groups. One was headed by Geoff Marcy, then at San Francisco State University, the other by Michel Mayor at the Geneva...

Featured Resource

Zero-point Energy and Dark Energy

Quantum mechanics predicts the existence of what are usually called ''zero-point'' energies for the strong, the weak and the electromagnetic interactions, where ''zero-point'' refers to the energy of the system at temperature T=0, or the lowest...