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CXC Biographies: Dr. Colin Norman
Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University and
Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute
 Colin Norman is Professor of Physics and
Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University and Astronomer at the Space
Telescope Science Institute. He works on both theoretical and
observational astrophysics in areas including: the formation,
structure, and evolution of galaxies; the physics of active galaxies,
quasars, and starburst galaxies; the structure of the intergalactic
medium and the interstellar medium; and, star formation.
He was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne, Australia, a
graduate student in Theoretical Physics at Oxford as a Rhodes
Scholar, and then elected as a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
After his postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow, Dr.
Norman joined the faculty at Leiden University as an Assistant
Professor in 1978. In the next 6 years he held, in addition,
appointments at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, the University
of Paris and the European Southern Observatory. In 1984, he moved to
his current post in Baltimore. From 1988 through 1994 he was Head of
the Academic Affairs Division at the Space Telescope Science
Institute. He frequently visits the European Southern Observatory
where the optical work for this project was done using the 8-meter
telescope at the VLT. He is currently proposing to create a new
Astrophysics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University.
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