Education
Bachelor of science in physics from Caltech, 1962
Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of California-Berkeley, 1967.
Bachelor of science in physics from Caltech, 1962
Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of California-Berkeley, 1967.
Born March 1, 1941 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Married to Doctor Susan M. Lea with one daughter. He is a United States. citizen.
Lampton has been heavily involved with the SNAP project
SNAP, the Supernova/Acceleration Probe, will study exploding stars called supernovae, as well as the gentle smearing of the light from distant galaxies due to gravity — called weak gravitational lensing — and put limits on what may or may not be the force driving the outward pull on the Universe. SNAP will investigate over one thousand square degrees of sky with a 500 megapixel camera.
SNAP is part of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), which is a cooperative venture between National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States. Department of Energy. SNAP collaborators John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in physics.
Lampton was a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut from 1978 - 1992.
Below is a list of the missions he was a part of. In 1961, while Lampton was attending Caltech he was one of the "Fiendish Fourteen", 14 students responsible for the Great Rose Bowl Hoax.