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January 25, 2007
Dr. Virginia Trimble, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, and Staff Member, Las Cumbres Observatory (Santa Barbara), 1-25-07
Dr. Virginia Trimble is a native Californian and a graduate of Hollywood High School (1961), UCLA (B.A. in Physics & Astronomy 1964), Caltech (M.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1968 in astronomy), and Cambridge University (M.A. 1969).
Dr. Trimble’s current scientific interests include structure and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the universe, and of the communities of scientists who study them, incorporated, so far, in about 500 publications. She is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, and a staff member of Las Cumbres Observatory (Santa Barbara).
In recent years, Dr. Trimble has served in governance positions and on committees and boards of directors for the American Astronomical Society, the American Physical Society, the International Astronomical Union, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, the Peter Gruber Foundation, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
The UCI physics department opened with the campus in 1965 with fewer than a dozen faculty, concentrated in three areas — particle physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics (then called solid state physics). A fourth concentration, in astrophysics, was intended from the beginning, although the first hire was in that area was not made until 1971 (Dr. Trimble), and the second in the mid 1980s (Dr. Gary Chanan).
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