Yervant Terzian

The David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences
Director, NASA NY Spacegrant
Ph.D. 1965 (Indiana University)

Campus Address:
512 Space Sciences Building
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: 607-255-4935

Homepage: http://www.astro.cornell.edu/people/terzianCV/

Specialty Areas: Radio and Radar Astronomy

Research Projects: HI in Binary galaxies, Interstellar Clouds and Planetary Nebulae, Late Stellar Evolution and OH/IR Stars, Technology Development for the Square Kilometer Array., US Square Kilometer Array Consortium, National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program - NASA/NY Space Grant Consortium, REU Support for Undergraduate Research in Observational Astronomy

Biography: Yervant Terzian, is "The David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences", in the Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences at Cornell University. He was Department Chairman from 1979-1999. His fields of expertise are the physics of the Interstellar Medium, Galaxies, and Radio Astronomy. He is a Research Professor with the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center and member of the International Astronomical Union, the International Union of Radio Science, the American Astronomical Society, and the Hellenic Astronomical Society, among other memberships. He has been a Scientific Editor of The Astrophysical Journal (1989-1999). In 1984, he received the Clark Distinguished Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1996, he was appointed Director of NASA's New York Space Grant Program to enhance science education. He has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Indiana (1989), the Yerevan State University in Armenia (1994), the University of Thessaloniki in Greece (1997), and from Union College (1999). In 1990, he was elected Foreign Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2002 he was elected Chairman of the US Consortium of Universities and Institutes to construct the Square Kilometer Array giant radio telescope. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications and the editor of six books, including "Carl Sagan's Universe".

Selected Publications: -Panagia, N., and Y. Terzian. "Ultraviolet Radiation from White Dwarfs and the Carbon Ionization in the Galactic Halo." Ap. J. 287, 315 (1984).
-Schneider, S., E. E. Salpeter, and Y. Terzian. "High- Resolution Observations of the Intergalactic HI Cloud in the M96 Group." Astron. J. 91, 13 (1986).
-Nordgren, T., J. Cordes, and Y. Terzian. "The Scale Height of the Galactic Free Electron Cloud." Astron. J. 104, 1465 (1992).
Hajian, A., Y. Terzian, and C. Bignell. "Planetary Nebulae Expansion Distances" Astron. J. 106, 1965 (1993).
-Chengalur, J., E. E. Salpeter, and Y. Terzian. "Dynamics of Binary Galaxies II: Close Pairs." Astron. J. 107, 1984 (1994).