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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Eric Chaisson</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"> (1946-10-26) October 26, 1946 <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="Lowell%2C_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell, Massachusetts</a>, <a href="United_States" title="United States">United States</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Eric J. Chaisson</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="University_of_Massachusetts_Lowell" title="University of Massachusetts Lowell">University of Massachusetts Lowell</a>; <a href="Harvard" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard">Harvard</a> (PhD)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">astrophysicist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">research, teaching, and writing on the interdisciplinary science of <a href="Cosmic_Evolution_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic Evolution (book)">cosmic evolution</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable work</th><td class="infobox-data">see <a href="#Bibliography">Bibliography</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data">see <a href="#Awards">Awards</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

Eric J. Chaisson (pronounced chase-on, born on October 26, 1946, in <a href="Lowell%2C_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell, Massachusetts</a>) is an American <a href="Astrophysicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrophysicist">astrophysicist</a> known for his research, teaching, and writing on the interdisciplinary science of <a href="Cosmic_Evolution_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmic Evolution (book)">cosmic evolution</a>. He is a member of the <a href="Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics">Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian</a>, teaches natural science at <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> and is an elected Fellow of the <a href="American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

He has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles in science journals on topics including <a href="Interstellar_clouds" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstellar clouds">interstellar clouds</a> and <a href="Nebulae" class="mw-redirect" title="Nebulae">nebulae</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> as well as the supermassive <a href="Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a> at the center of the <a href="Milky_Way_Galaxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Milky Way Galaxy">Milky Way Galaxy</a>,<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> <a href="Complexity_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Complexity science">complexity science</a> utilizing the innovative concept of <a href="Energy_rate_density" class="mw-redirect" title="Energy rate density">energy rate density</a>, <a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> waste heating effects on <a href="Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>,<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> and <a href="Astrobiology" title="Astrobiology">astrobiology</a> of life in the Universe.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> He also seeks to unify natural science<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> and works to improve <a href="Science_education" title="Science education">science education</a> nationally and internationally.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2></div>

Chaisson was born October 26, 1946 in <a href="Lowell%2C_Massachusetts" title="Lowell, Massachusetts">Lowell, Massachusetts</a>. He Chaisson graduated in physics from <a href="University_of_Massachusetts_Lowell" title="University of Massachusetts Lowell">University of Massachusetts Lowell</a> in 1968 and earned his PhD at <a href="Harvard" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard">Harvard</a> in 1972. He has held professorial appointments at the <a href="Harvard-Smithsonian_Center_for_Astrophysics" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics">Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian</a>, <a href="Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Johns Hopkins University</a>, <a href="Space_Telescope_Science_Institute" title="Space Telescope Science Institute">Space Telescope Science Institute</a>, and <a href="Tufts_University" title="Tufts University">Tufts University</a>, where he was for 20 years director of the Wright Center for Science Education while holding research professorships in the department of physics and in the school of education. He is now back at the <a href="Harvard_College_Observatory" title="Harvard College Observatory">Harvard College Observatory</a> where, in semi-retirement, he teaches one course each year and works with colleagues at the allied <a href="Smithsonian_Astrophysical_Observatory" title="Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory">Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory</a>.

He was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Air Force at Lackland Air Base in 1970, served on active duty and in the reserves mainly at Mildenhall RAF base and Hanscom USAF base until 1986, after which he was honorably discharged at the rank of captain. He took leave from academia in 1986 at <a href="MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory" title="MIT Lincoln Laboratory">MIT Lincoln Laboratory</a> as staff physicist working on ballistic missile defense amidst occasional consulting and advising for many years with the military-intelligence community.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> He spent sabbaticals in the 1980s at Wellesley and Haverford colleges, in 1996 was visiting scholar and national lecturer for <a href="Phi_Beta_Kappa" title="Phi Beta Kappa">Phi Beta Kappa</a>, and in 2018 worked on solar energy as visiting professor at <a href="University_of_Notre_Dame" title="University of Notre Dame">University of Notre Dame</a> and Distinguished Fellow at its Institute for Advanced Study.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2></div>

Chaisson’s research and writing have won several awards, such as the 1977 B.J. Bok Prize<a href="#cite_note-BokPrize-19">[19]</a> for “original radio-astronomy discoveries,” the 1980 Smith-Weld Prize<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> for “best article by a Harvard faculty member,” a 1990 (and 1994) certificate of recognition from <a href="NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> with U.S. flag flown aboard the Space Shuttle-31 mission for “exceptional performance on the <a href="Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> program,”<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> as well as unsought fellowships from the <a href="Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation" title="Alfred P. Sloan Foundation">Sloan Foundation</a> and the <a href="United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="United States National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a>.

His 2018 election to the rank of AAAS Fellow noted his "research and teaching contributions to astrophysics, including co-authoring the nation's most widely used astronomy textbook." He was also a finalist nominee for the 2024 Smithsonian Secretary's national Achievement Award for "consistent and outstanding performance in educational programming that opens doors to lifelong learners, communities and educators elsewhere while serving the nation through distance learning, digital media, publications and exhibitions.”

His book Cosmic Dawn in 1982 received the <a href="Phi_Beta_Kappa_Award_in_Science" title="Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science">Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science</a>, the <a href="Science_Writing_Award" title="Science Writing Award">Science Writing Award</a> of the <a href="American_Institute_of_Physics" title="American Institute of Physics">American Institute of Physics</a> and was a finalist for the <a href="National_Book_Award_for_Nonfiction" title="National Book Award for Nonfiction">National Book Award for Nonfiction</a>. The Hubble Wars in 1995 also won the AIP’s <a href="Science_Writing_Award" title="Science Writing Award">Science Writing Award</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> and was hailed in the <a href="New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a>

as perhaps "the most readable and instructive book on the doing of science since <a href="James_Watson" title="James Watson">James Watson</a> wrote The Double Helix." Epic of Evolution won the 2007 Kistler Book Award<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> “for “increasing understanding of factors shaping the future of humanity.” And his textbook, Astronomy: The Universe at a Glance, won the Most Innovative New Textbook award in 2016 from the Textbook Authors Association.

In the 1990s, he co-produced and hosted the educational PBS (Maryland Intec) television series, Starfinder, highlighting <a href="Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> discoveries and people, now freely available online at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2></div>

<ul><li>Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life (in 9 foreign languages), Atlantic Monthly Press, 1981</li>

<li>The Invisible Universe: Probing Frontiers of Astrophysics (co-authored with G. Field; in 4 languages), Birkhauser-Boston, 1985</li>

<li>The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987</li>

<li>Relatively Speaking: Black Holes, Relativity, and Fate of the Universe (in five languages), Norton, 1988</li>

<li>Universe: An Evolutionary Approach to Astronomy, Prentice-Hall, 1988</li>

<li>Astronomy Today (co-authored with S. McMillan), Pearson, 9 editions, 1993-2018</li>

<li>Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide, (co-authored with S. McMillan), Pearson, 8 editions, 1995-2017</li>

<li>The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics . . ., HarperCollins, 1994</li>

<li>The 13th Labor: Improving Science Education (co-edited with T-C. Kim), Gordon&Breach, 1999</li>

<li>Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, Harvard University Press, 2001</li>

<li>Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos (in 7 languages), Columbia University Press, 2006</li>

<li>Astronomy: The Universe at a Glance (co-authored with S. McMillan), Pearson, 2016</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Big_History" title="Big History">Big History</a></li>

<li><a href="Epic_of_Evolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Epic of Evolution">Epic of Evolution</a></li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Science, p1010, November 30, 2018

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<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> "Inside Cool Interstellar Clouds," Nature, p311, October 6, 1972

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<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> "Gaseous Nebulas", E. Chaisson, Scientific American, pp164-180, December 1978

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<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> ”Black Hole Reportedly Detected at Core of the Milky Way Galaxy,” W. Sullivan, New York Times, p24, March 15, 1979

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<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> Harvard Astronomer Announces Find of Possible Black Hole at Milky Way Galaxy's Core," The Harvard Crimson, March 16, 1979

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<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> Big History and the Future of Humanity, Spier, F., Wiley-Blackwell, London, 2011

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<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a> ”Energy Flows in Low-Entropy Complex Systems,” E. Chaisson, Entropy, v 17, pp8007-8018, 2015

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<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a> ”The Other Global Warming,” B. Venkataraman, Boston Sunday Globe, page 1, January 25, 2009

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<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> ”The Heat to come . . .” E. Chaisson, New Scientist, pp24-25, April 4, 2009

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<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a> ”How clean is green?” A. Ananthaswamy, New Scientist, pp35-38, January 28, 2012

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<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a> ”The Ascent of Life,” M. Chorost, New Scientist, pp35-37, January 21, 2012

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<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a> "A Unifying Concept for Astrobiology," E. Chaisson, International Journal of Astrobiology, v 2, p 91, 2003.

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<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> ”Unnecessary Complexity,” D. McShea, Science, v 342, pp1319-1320, 2013

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<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> "Rhythm of the Cosmos: Finding Unity among the Natural Sciences", E. Chaisson, Tufts Magazine, pp 16-22, Spring, 2001.

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<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> The 13th Labor: Improving Science Education: A collection of essays from a workshop at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, T-C. Kim and E. Chaisson (eds.), Gordon&Breach Publishers, 1999

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<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> Astronomy Today, Chaisson, E. and S. McMillan, Pearson, 9 editions, 1993-2018

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<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> "Military Planners View the Shuttle As Way to Open Space for Warfare," Lyons, R., New York Times, p34, March 29, 1981

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ndias.nd.edu/fellows/chaisson-eric-j/">"Eric J. - Chaisson // Institute for Advanced Study // University of Notre Dame"</a>.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-BokPrize-19"><a href="#cite_ref-BokPrize_19-0">^</a> <cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/bok-prize">"Bok Prize"</a>. Department of Astronomy. <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. Retrieved 2016-03-06.</cite>

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<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> Harvard Gazette, November 10, 1979

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<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> "Heaven comes down to earth with Annapolis man in the classroom," Harper, S., The Sunday Capital, April 2, 1989

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<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> "Early Results from the Hubble Space Telescope," Chaisson, E., Scientific American, pp44-52, June 1992

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<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> "Chaisson and Kitchener Honored,"Physics Today, p28, December 1995

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<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a> New York Times Book Review, C. Raymo, May 29, 1994

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<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.futurefoundation.org/awards/kba_2007_chaisson.html">[1]</a> Foundation for the Future, 2007

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<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a> "Corporation for Public Broadcasting," <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://americanarchive.org/catalog?q=Starfinder">https://americanarchive.org/catalog?q=Starfinder</a>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cv.pdf">Eric Chaisson's curriculum vitae</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson">Eric Chaisson's web site</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/splash.html">Cosmic evolution web site</a> (containing text, images, animations, movies, and hyperlinked references of interest to both non-scientists {Introductory Track} and professional scientists {Advanced Track}).</li>

<li>A 60-minute video interview with PBS-Science for the Public 2014: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://forum-network.org/lectures/evolution-cosmos/">WGBH Forum</a></li>

<li>Representative samples of recent research articles: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/current_research.pdf">Current Research</a></li>

<li>Syllabus of annual course at Harvard: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/current_teaching.pdf">Current Teaching</a></li></ul>

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