Murray Campbell's first research in astrophysics was as a graduate student in a group
at Cornell University which observed the pulsar in the Crab Nebula with a large gamma
ray telescope flown on a 20 million-cubic-foot, high-altitude balloon. After obtaining
his PhD, he changed fields to infrared astronomy, using telescopes on balloons and aircraft.
These observations have been of star-forming clouds at far-infrared wavelengths.
Colby students have worked with him on infrared astronomy since 1981, and several have been coauthors on papers in the Astrophysical Journal. He is currently making computer models of star-forming clouds he observed in the far-infrared on the NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and beginning a new program of observing the same clouds at mid-infrared wavelengths at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. In addition to infrared astronomy, he operates Colby's Collins Observatory for class use and student research. However, teaching is his first love, and he teaches both physics and astronomy courses. See also Professor Campbell's research in infrared astronomy. |
mfcampbe@colby.edu
