Charles R. Alcock

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An haifi Alcock a Windsor, Berkshire, Ingila, kuma ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Westlake Boys da ke North Shore na Auckland daga 1965 zuwa 1968. Alcock ya sami digirin digirgir a fannin ilmin taurari da kimiyyar lissafi daga Cibiyar Fasaha ta California a 1977. Ya fara aikinsa na dogon lokaci a Cibiyar Nazarin Ci Gaba da ke Princeton, New Jersey (1977–1981). Ya kasance mataimakin farfesa a fannin kimiyyar lissafi a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Massachusetts (1981–1986) kafin ya shiga Dakin Gwaji na Kasa na Lawrence Livermore (1986–2000), inda ya jagoranci Cibiyar Nazarin Kasa da Kimiyyar Fiziki ta Duniya.

Alcock a da shi ne Farfesa na Reese W. Flower na ilmin taurari a Jami'ar Pennsylvania . Babban abin da ya fi mayar da hankali a kai shi ne manyan ƙananan abubuwa masu kama da halo, taurari masu wutsiya da taurari masu kama da taurari . Shi ne babban mai bincike na Taiwan American Occultation Survey, wani aiki da aka yi niyya don ƙididdige yawan abubuwan Kuiper Belt (abubuwan da ke bayan kewayar Neptune ) na Tsarin Rana .

A shekara ta 2001, an zaɓe Alcock a Kwalejin Kimiyya ta Ƙasa ta Amurka . Ya sami kyautar Beatrice M. Tinsley ta 2000 daga Ƙungiyar Astronomical Society ta Amurka da kuma kyautar EO Lawrence ta 1996 a fannin kimiyyar lissafi.  Duk kyaututtukan sun amince da aikinsa na farko a matsayin babban mai bincike kan babban aikin Amurka na neman manyan abubuwan halo masu ƙanƙanta da kuma kimanta gudummawar da suka bayar ga ɓangaren duhu na halo ɗin galactic na Milky Way . An zaɓe shi a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a shekara ta 2006. 

Alcock ya shiga Cibiyar Nazarin Astrophysics a watan Agusta na 2004 kuma ya kasance darakta har zuwa Janairun 2022. A matsayinsa na darekta, ya kula da kasafin kuɗin tarayya na shekara-shekara na dala miliyan 111, da kuma ma'aikata kimanin ma'aikatan Smithsonian 540 (da kuma baƙi, abokan aiki da ɗalibai) da kuma malamai 130 na Harvard, ma'aikata, masana kimiyya masu ziyara da ɗaliban digiri.

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