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Following his earlier captivating presentation on the cosmos, Dr. Isaacman returned to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington (BGCGW) on 3/29 and 4/5/2017 to inspire another group of students with an expansive two-part series on astronomy.
Dr. Richard B. Isaacman is an astrophysicist. He joined NASA Goddard as a contractor and was head of the science software team for NASA’s first cosmology satellite, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). The COBE mission confirmed the major features of the Big Bang theory for the origin of the Universe, and won its project scientist, Dr. John Mather, the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Isaacman worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and later joined ADNET Systems, Inc. As the Vice President of Science and Engineering at ADNET, he managed a technical staff of 350 people supporting some 25 NASA satellite missions at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Isaacman received his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1980 from Leiden University in the Netherlands, after which he became the Netherlands’ science liaison to the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea on the Big Island in Hawaii.
This program is part of FAMES® STEM After School Program at BGCGW.