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A. Stark
Antony A. Stark
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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Tony Stark graduated
with honors in Physics and Astronomy from the California Institute
of Technology, and went on to a doctorate in Astrophysical Sciences
at Princeton University under Arno Penzias. He became a Member
of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in the Radio Physics
Research group of Robert W. Wilson, where he worked on high-frequency
radio instrumentation. He is author of over a hundred articles
in scientific journals, including the Bell Laboratories HI Survey
and the Bell Laboratories CO Survey, two of the largest and
most frequently-used data sets on our Milky Way Galaxy. Along
with fellow Bell Labs scientist Mark Dragovan, Stark made some
of the first measurements to establish the Antarctic Plateau
as a superior observatory site for sensitive radioastronomical
observations. He has worked at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
almost every year since 1986. He was Principal Investigator
and designer of the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote
Observatory (AST/RO), a 1.7 meter diameter telescope that operated
at the Pole for a decade. He was among the founders of the Center
for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica, an NSF Science and
Technology Center that established and operated an observatory
with four telescopes at Pole. In 1991, he became an astronomer
with the Radio and Geoastronomy Division of the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory. Currently, he is a Co-Principal Investigator
of the South Pole Telescope (SPT), a 10 meter diameter telescope
that became operational in February 2007. The SPT has begun
a survey of clusters of galaxies in order to determine the properties
of the Dark Energy that drives the dyamics of the Universe.
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