Alan Michael Dressler is an American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington, District of Columbia
Background
Dressler was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1966, and received his bachelor"s degree in physics in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate in astronomy in 1976 from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Education
University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Among his works is the popularization Voyage To The Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space. His primary professional interests lie in cosmology, birth and evolution of galaxies, astronomical instrumentation, and extragalactic astronomy. From 1993 to 1995 Dressler chaired the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) committee "HST & Beyond: Exploration and the Search for Origins" that provided National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the document "A Vision for Ultraviolet-Optical-Infrared Space Astronomy".
Dressler was chairman of the Origins Subcommittee (Operating system) for National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 2000 to 2003, but declined membership in the Review of Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies, Survey/Detection Panel.
Dressler is currently working on the Inamori Magellan Areal Camera and Spectrograph (IMACS) Cluster Building Survey which studies the evolution of stellar structures and populations in distant galaxy clusters, which means the events observed took place four to seven billion years ago.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences]
He was a member of the Nuker Team and the Morphs collaboration which studied the evolution of spiral galaxies using the Magellan Telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope. He is also a member of the Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronograph Science and technology definition team