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CXC Biographies: Dr. Jeff Hester
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University
 Following
completion of his PhD from Rice University in 1985, Dr. Jeff Hester
joined the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera
science team first as a postdoctoral assistant, and later as an
associate member of that team. In 1990, he joined the science team
responsible for the second generation WFPC2, which restored Hubble's
imaging capability in late 1993.
Dr. Hester, who joined the faculty at Arizona State University in
1991, is known for his work on the interstellar medium. His credits
include HST observations of regions of star formation, such as the
Eagle Nebula, as well as HST observations of both the enegetic pulsar
wind and the expanding cloud of ejecta in the Crab Nebula.
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