Charles R. Alcock
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| Born | Charles Roger Alcock 15 June 1951 Windsor, England |
| Residence | Somerville, Massachusetts |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Notable students | Alyssa A. Goodman |
| Known for | Massive compact halo objects |
| Notable awards |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1996) Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (2000) |
Charles Roger Alcock (born 15 June 1951) is a British New Zealander astronomer. He is the current director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, Alcock attended Westlake Boys High School in the North Shore of Auckland from 1965-1968. Alcock earned his Ph.D. in astronomy and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1977. He began his career as long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey (1977–1981). He was associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981–1986) before joining Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1986–2000), where he directed the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Alcock was previously the Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary research interests are massive compact halo objects, comets and asteroids. He is the principal investigator for the Taiwan American Occultation Survey, a project aimed at taking a census of the Solar System's population of Kuiper Belt objects (objects located beyond the orbit of Neptune).
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