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Farhad Yusef-Zadeh |
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(Northwestern University)
Farhad Yusef-Zadeh is an astrophysicist at Northwestern
University. He went to State University of New York
at Stony Brook for his undergraduate studies in
Physics and then to Columbia University where he
received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1986. He spent
two years at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
working as a National Research Council postdoctoral
fellow before joining the faculty of the Department
of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University
in 1988.
Farhad's main interest is to understand the physical
processes that take place in the nucleus of our
galaxy, the nature of supernova remnants interacting
with molecular clouds, and star formation occurring
in ionized clouds. The observation, analysis, and
interpretation of the data is taken with radio telescopes
and to a lesser extent with infrared, X-ray and
optical telescopes, including Hubble.
Farhad grew up in Tehran, Iran and came to New
York at the age of 18 to attend college. His fascination
with the night sky began early in his life as he
would often sleep on the roof of his house during
hot summer nights and would watch the stars of the
Milky Way galaxy. This fascination turned into a
career once he reached Columbia University and focused
his efforts on understanding the center of our galaxy.
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