June 15th 05, 06:29 PM
FOR RELEASE: June 13, 2005
Donna Weaver/Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4493/4514; E-mail: or
)
PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR05-08
NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED AT SPACE TELESCOPE
Dr. Mattias (Matt) Mountain has been appointed director of the Space
Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science
operations
center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the planned James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST). He will succeed Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith, who
will end his term Sept. 1.
Previously, Dr. Mountain was director of the Gemini Observatory and was
based in Hilo, Hawaii. The observatory operates the two 8-meter Gemini
Telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii and Cerro Pach?n in Chile. Dr.
Mountain
is also the telescope scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, a
member of the JWST Science Working Group, and a visiting professor at
the University of Oxford (UK).
Electronic image files and additional information are available at
http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/08.
Donna Weaver/Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
(Phone: 410-338-4493/4514; E-mail: or
)
PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR05-08
NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTED AT SPACE TELESCOPE
Dr. Mattias (Matt) Mountain has been appointed director of the Space
Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science
operations
center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the planned James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST). He will succeed Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith, who
will end his term Sept. 1.
Previously, Dr. Mountain was director of the Gemini Observatory and was
based in Hilo, Hawaii. The observatory operates the two 8-meter Gemini
Telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii and Cerro Pach?n in Chile. Dr.
Mountain
is also the telescope scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, a
member of the JWST Science Working Group, and a visiting professor at
the University of Oxford (UK).
Electronic image files and additional information are available at
http://hubblesite.org/news/2005/08.