Harriet L Dinerstein
Professor
Department of Astronomy
University of Texas at Austin
United States of America
Biography
Harriet Dinerstein is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1985.[1][2] She also received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in 1989.[1][2][3][4] Dinerstein received her Bachelor's of Science degree from Yale University in 1975 and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980. She currently is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Research Interest
Planetary nebulae; abundances in gaseous nebulae; infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy of emission lines; extragalactic H II regions and star formation in disk galaxies; classical novae.
Publications
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Gary Hill (2015) MRI: Development of VIRUS2 - A Scalable Integral Field Spectrograph for McDonald Observatory.
