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CXC Biographies: David Burrows
Professor, Penn State University
 David N.
Burrows is a Senior Scientist and Professor of Astronomy and
Astrophysics at Penn State University, and is a member of the science
team responsible for building the Chandra ACIS instrument used to
collect these X-ray images of the Crab. His research interests
include X-ray instrumentation, supernova remnants, and the hot
interstellar medium. He leads the instrument team for the X-Ray
Telescope on NASA's Swift Gamma-Burst Explorer spacecraft.
Burrows was an undergraduate at Beloit College and obtained a
doctorate in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982.
He has been on the Penn State faculty since 1983, working on the
development of X-ray CCD cameras like ACIS, on observations of X-ray
"shadows" from cold clouds in the interstellar medium, and on
observations of supernova remnants. His first observation of the
X-ray Crab nebula, performed in 1976 as a young graduate student, had
no spatial resolution, and he is delighted to be working now with a
telescope capable of observing the fascinating and dynamic fine
details of this object.
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