Martha P. Haynes

Haynes graduated from Wellesley College in 1973 with a B.A. in physics and astronomy. She went to Indiana University for graduate school. There she received her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1978. From 1978 until 1981 she worked at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center when she left to become the assistant director for the Green Bank Telescope. She joined the faculty at Cornell in 1983.[4] There she worked with collaborator Riccardo Giovanelli, using radio telescopes to map the distribution of galaxies in the Universe.

She was co-lead of the ALFALFA survey, having worked with the project (and its predecessor project, the ALFA survey) since the early 2000s.[5]

Together with Riccardo Giovanelli, she worked on the development of the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) in the mid-1990s, which has led to the construction of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile. She is (as of 2020) the chairman of the board of directors for the CCAT-project.[5]

• In 1989, Haynes received together with her collaborator Riccardo Giovanelli the Henry Draper Medal "for the first three-dimensional view of some of the remarkable large-scale filamentary structures of our visible universe".[6]
• In 1999 she was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2000 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• She was awarded the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2019 "in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding achievement and contributions to astrophysics research".[7]
• Asteroid 26744 Marthahaynes, discovered by astronomers of LONEOS program at Anderson Mesa Station in 2001, was named in her honor.[8] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on November 8, 2019 (M.P.C. 118219).[9]
• She was awarded the 2020 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship.[10]
• She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[11]

Haynes is married to longtime collaborator Riccardo Giovanelli. They live in Ithaca, New York.

• Haynes, M. P., and R. Giovanelli. "Large-Scale Structure in the Local Universe: The Pisces-Perseus Supercluster." In Large-Scale Motions in the Universe, V. C. Rubin and G. F. Coyne, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 45.
• Haynes, M. P. "Evidence for Gas Deficiency in Cluster Galaxies." In Clusters of Galaxies, W. R. Oegerle, M. J. Fitchett, and L. Danly, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 177.
• Vogt, N. P., T. Herter, M. P. Haynes, and S. Courteau. "The Rotation Curves of Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift." Astrophys. J. Lett. 415 (1993).
• Roberts, M. S., and M. P. Haynes. "Variation of Physical Properties along the Hubble Sequence." Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 32, 115 (1994).
• Haynes, M. P., and A. H. Broeils. "Cool HI Disks in Galaxies." In Gas Disks in Galaxies, J. M. van der Hulst, ed. (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995), to appear.[2]

• ALFALFA, an astronomical survey at the Arecibo Observatory

• Martha P. Haynes Personal Page
• Cornell University: Department of Astronomy
• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center: Arecibo Observatory