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Chris McKee received his Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1970. After a brief stay at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he spent a year as a postdoc at Caltech. He then held a position as an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard for several years before joining the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at Berkeley in 1974. He served as the Director of the Theoretical Astrophysics Center from 1985 and directed the Space Sciences Laboratory from 1985 to 1998. McKee was the Henry Norris Russell Lecturer of the American Astronomical Society in 2016 and was appointed a Legacy Fellow of the Society in 2020. He is also a Miller Professor and Guggenheim Fellow. His research interests include the formation of stars from the diffuse interstellar medium in galaxies, highlighting the complex physical processes involved and the nonlinear interactions present. He focuses on star formation, the conditions affecting it, and the influence of magnetic fields, primarily dealing with massive stars and their feedback mechanisms in star clusters.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Joined the Departments of Physics and Astronomy, focusing on theoretical astrophysics.
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