Andrea Dupree

Andrea Dupree is a senior astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.[1] She is a Past-President of the American Astronomical Society, and served as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Dupree also served as Head of the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division.[1]

Andrea K. Dupree
Astrophysicist Andrea Dupree
BornSeptember 17, 1939
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWellesley College, 1960, Harvard University, 1968
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
ThesisAnalysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona (1968)

Early life

Andrea Kundsin Dupree was born September 17, 1939, to parents Edwin and Ruth. She is the oldest sibling with a younger brother, Dennis Edwin Kundsin.[2]

Education and career


Dupree attended Wellesley College and graduated with her bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts in 1956. She knew she wanted to go in to the sciences, and her favorite subjects were Geology and Astronomy. In a 2007 interview, Dupree said, "I’m sure I would’ve been a geologist if the coin had ended up heads instead of tails."[3] After graduating from Wellesley, Dupree briefly studied at University of California, Berkeley, before enrolling in graduate school at Radcliffe in 1961. The Radcliffe Graduate School merged with Harvard University in 1963, and Dupree graduated with her PhD in astrophysics from Harvard in 1968.[3] Her graduate thesis was titled Analysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona.[4]

Dupree has worked as an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian since 1968. In 1980, she became the first woman and youngest person to serve as the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics. From 1996 to 1998, she served as the President of the American Astronomical Society.[5] Dupree is an internationally recognized leader in stellar physics and the bulk of her research is on stars like our own Sun.

Dr. Andrea K. Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the cassegrain focus of the 4-m Mayall telescope of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Kitt Peak, AZ.

Dupree recorded an oral history with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in 2007.[6]

She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020 [7]

Awards and honors

She received the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award in 2019 and 2020.[8]

References
  1. "Dupree". Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. Physics, American Institute of (2015-01-23). "Andrea Dupree". www.aip.org. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  3. "Andrea Dupree". American Institute of Physics. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  4. Dupree, Andrea Kundsin (1968). Analysis of Emission Lines from the Solar Corona (PhD thesis). Bibcode:1968PhDT.........3D.
  5. "Past Officers and Trustees". Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  6. "Andrea Dupree". www.aip.org. 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  7. "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  8. "Smithsonian Profiles". profiles.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
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