Sallie Baliunas
| Sallie L. Baliunas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 23, 1953 New York City, United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions |
Mount Wilson Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| Alma mater |
Villanova University, Harvard University |
| Thesis | Optical and ultraviolet studies of stellar chromospheres of Lambda Andromedae and other late-type stars (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrea Dupree |
| Notable awards | Bok Prize (1988), Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy (1988) |
Sallie Louise Baliunas (born February 23, 1953) is a retired astrophysicist. She formerly worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at one point was the Deputy Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory.
Baliunas was born and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. She attended public schools in the New York City area and high school in New Jersey. She received a B.S. in astrophysics from Villanova University in 1974, and an A.M. and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1975 and 1980. Her doctoral thesis was titled, Optical and ultraviolet studies of stellar chromospheres of Lambda Andromedae and other late-type stars.
Baliunas was originally a research associate of the Harvard College Observatory in 1980 and became an astrophysicist in the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 1989.
Baliunas has also been a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, an adjunct professor at Tennessee State University, and was deputy director of the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1991 to 2003.
She has been a member of the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Physical Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, International Astronomical Union, and Sigma XI.
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