Meet the People at the BHI
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Peter Galison
Director
Harvard University
History of Science, Physics
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Shep Doeleman
Event Horizon Telescope Founding Director
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Astronomy
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Netta Engelhardt
Assistant Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
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Michael Johnson
Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Institute for Theory and Computation
Astronomy
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Avi Loeb
Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science Founding Director, Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021) Director, Institute for Theory and Computation Chair, Harvard Astronomy Dept. (2011-2020)
Harvard University
Astronomy
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Ramesh Narayan
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences
Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
Astronomy
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Priyamvada Natarajan
Joseph S. and Sophia S. Fruton Professor of Astronomy & Physics
Departments of Astronomy & Physics, Yale; Black Hole Initiative, Harvard
Astronomy, History of Science
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Andrew Strominger
Gwill E. York Professor of Physics
Harvard University
Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics
Honorary Affiliate: Stephen Hawking
In Memoriam
Former Honorary Affiliate
Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge Physics
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