Women in STEM: Flipping Some Definitions

Judy Pipher

Dr. Judith (Judy) Pipher has been an infrared astronomer since the mid 1960s. She has been on the faculty at the University of Rochester since 1971, and a professor emerita since 2002. Still very active in research, her group has been developing passively cooled infrared cameras for space research. The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, continues to this day to obtain impressive images of star formation regions, galaxies, and exoplanetary systems to name a few. We are hopeful that a JPLled project, NEOCam, the Near Earth Object Camera, utilizing one of the infrared cameras we have developed, will launch in a few years to find potentially hazardous asteroids and comets before they find us! (NASA is developing plans to divert or destroy too close Near Earth Objects once they identify where they are). Judy serves on various boards, both professional and non-profit, including that of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, where she was inducted in 2007 for her work. Other awards include the Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award.

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