George H. Rieke

George H. Rieke (born January 5, 1943), a noted American infrared astronomer, is former Deputy Director of the Steward Observatory and Regents Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He led the experiment design and development team for the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument on NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, and currently chairs the science team of the Mid-Infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).[1]

Rieke was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in mathematics and physics category on May 2, 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 3, 2011. He was cited for his contributions as an infrared observer and instrumentalist. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1976, a Vikram Sarabhai Professorship in 1986, a NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award in 1986, a NASA Public Service Medal in 2005, and the Koffler Prize for creative scholarship at the University of Arizona in 2006.

Among other contributions, Rieke and his group:

Rieke helped develop the first infrared-optimized telescope and constructed a series of state-of-the-art focal plane instruments. Rieke was involved with the Space Lab 2 infrared telescope, a pioneering infrared space mission. He led the Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instrument team for Spitzer. The highly sensitive MIPS camera was built at Ball Aerospace under Rieke's leadership. It provided very high performance imaging and efficient surveying at 24, 70, and 160 microns; the detector arrays for the latter two bands were developed and build under direction by Rieke, Frank Low, and Erick Young at Steward Observatory. Also, Rieke is the lead scientist on a team to produce a mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) for the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018. MIRI operates from 5 to 28.5 microns, providing imaging, coronagraphy, and low and medium resolution spectroscopy. Its focal plane and control electronics were developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (detectors from Raytheon Vision Systems), its crycooler at Northrop Grumman collaborating with JPL, and its optical system and instrument testing under Gillian Wright leading a European Consortium of national institutions. See http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/MIRI.

Education

Ph.D. Physics 1969 Harvard University

M.S. Physics 1965 Harvard University

B.A. Physics 1964 Oberlin College

References

  1. George H. Rieke University of Arizona faculty website

[2] Rieke and Low 1972, ApJL, 176, L95

[3] Rieke et al. 1980, ApJ, 238, 24

[4] Rieke, Rieke, and Paul 1989, ApJ, 336, 752

[5] Rieke 1978, ApJ, 226, 550

[6] Rieke and Lebofsky 1981, ApJ, 250, 87

[7] Rieke 1975, Icarus, 26, 37

[8] Luhman, Rieke, et al. 2000, ApJ, 540, 1016

[9] Kim, Ruiz, Rieke et al. 1999, Icarus, 138, 164

[10] Rieke et al. 2005, ApJ, 620, 1010

[11] Gaspar, Rieke, and Balog 2013, ApJ, 768, 25

[12] Meng, Rieke, et al. 2012, ApJL, 751, 17

[13] Meng, Su, Rieke et al. 2014, Science, 345, 1032

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