Jay Pasachoff in 2005 standing in front of the largest telescope in the world, the 10.4-meter reflector in the Canary Islands. Click on the image for a higher-resolution version.
at Williams since 1972
| Bronx High School of Science | H.S. 1959 |
| Harvard College | A.B. 1963 |
| Harvard University | A.M. 1965 |
| Harvard University | Ph.D. 1969 |
| Harvard College Observatory | postdoc 1969-70 |
| Caltech | postdoc 1970-72 |
2003 Education Prize, American Astronomical Society
2003 Honorary Member, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
2003-2006 President, Commission on Education and Development of the
International Astronomical Union
current Chair, Working Group on Solar Eclipses
2011-13 Vice-Chair, Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society; 2013-15, Chair.
| Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii | 1980-81, 1984-85 |
| Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris | 1988 |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | 1989-90 |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | 1993-4 |
| Harvard University | Visiting Lecturer in Astronomy, 1993-4 |
| Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Visiting Scientist 1993-4 |
| Harvard University: Associate of the Astronomy Dept. | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: Visiting Scientist 2001-2 |
| California Institute of Technology | 2008-9 |
| California Institute of Technology | 2010-11 |
| Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | 2009-2011 |
See:
| www.solarcorona.com | for a list of his published books |
| www.solarcorona.net | for the Web pages for his astronomy texts |
www.cengage.com/search/totalsearchresults.do?N=16&image.x=0&image.y=0&keyword_all=pasachoff |
for Brooks/Cole's Web pages for his texts |
| www.eclipses.info | for the Program Group on Public Education at the Times of Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union |
| www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipse | 51 past eclipse expeditions |
| www.williams.edu/astronomy/eclipses | for the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union |