Edwin L. Turner

Edwin L. Turner is Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and is currently serving as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC). After receiving a S.B. in Physics at MIT ('71) and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from Caltech ('75), he spent brief periods at the Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard University before joining the Princeton faculty in 1978. He has carried out extensive astronomical observations at Mt. Palomar Observatory, Kitt Peak National Observatory, NRAO's Very Large Array, Apache Point Observatory, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan’s Subaru Telescope and with the Hubble Space Telescope. His sabbatical leaves have taken him to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and the University of Tokyo. His recent teaching activities at Princeton include courses in cosmology, in astrobiology and in media coverage of science.