VITAE OF PETER O. VANDERVOORT
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
The University of Chicago
Date and Place of Birth
April
25, 1935 at Detroit, Michigan
Marital Status
(a) Married
Frances Sheridan, September 23, 1956
(b) Children:
William
Frederick Vandervoort, born June 14, 1957
Dirk
Sheridan Vandervoort, born February 25, 1960
Education
Attended the University of Chicago, September 1951
through March 1960
BA
(The College) 1954
BS
(Physics) 1955
MS
(Physics) 1956
PhD
(Physics) 1960
Positions held before receiving the PhD degree
(a) Summer
Research Assistant, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, Summer
1956.
(b) Research
Assistant in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of
Chicago, 1956-1960.
(c) Teaching
Assistant in College Natural Sciences, The University of Chicago, 1957-1958.
Positions held after receiving the PhD degree
(a) Visiting
Research Associate, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, WV,
April-September 1960.
(b) National
Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Observatory,
Princeton, NJ, 1960-1961.
(c) Assistant
Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago,
1961-1965.
(d) Associate
Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago,
1965-1980.
(e) National
Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Sterrewacht (The Observatory),
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1967-68.
(f) Professor,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College, The University of
Chicago, 1980-2003.
(g) Associate
Chairman, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago,
1984-1987.
(h) Master
of the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division and Associate Dean of the Division
of the Physical Sciences and of the College, The University of Chicago,
1991-1997.
(i) Acting
Dean, Division of the Physical Sciences, The University of Chicago,
June-October 1995.
(j) Professor
Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College, The
University of Chicago, 2003-
Other Professional Activities
(a) Examiner
for the North Central Association for the preliminary accreditation of the PhD
program in Astronomy at the New Mexico State University, 1968-1969.
(b) Member
of ÒCommittee YÓ appointed by the Board of Higher Education of the State of
Illinois to assess graduate and professional education in the physical sciences
for the development of the BoardÕs master plan for higher education in
Illinois, 1969-1971.
(c) Member
of the Research Associateship Evaluation Panel, Office of Scientific Personnel,
National Research Council, 1971.
(d) Member
of the evaluation panel for National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
(Physics and Astronomy), Office of Scientific Personnel, National Research Council,
1971-1975 (Panel Chairman, 1973, 1974 & 1975).
(e) Trustee
(ex officio from the University of
Chicago), Adler Planetarium, 1974-2004; Life Trustee 2004-.
(f) Member,
Local Organizing Committee, 147th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, Illinois, December 7-10, 1975.
(g) Member,
Review Committee for the Astronomy Program of the University of Maryland, 1977.
(h) Division
on Dynamical Astronomy, American Astronomical Society. Member of the Executive Committee,
1976-1979 & 1986-1989; Vice-Chairman, 1979-1980; Chairman, 1980-1981.
(i) Member,
Working Group on Galactic Astronomy, NRC Astronomy Survey Committee, 1979.
(j) Associate
Editor, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical
Astronomy, 1989-1994.
(k) Member,
Celestial Mechanics Institute, 1997-2008.
Membership in Professional Societies
(a) American
Astronomical Society
(b) International
Astronomical Union (Commission 33)
(c) American
Physical Society
(d) Royal
Astronomical Society
(e) Sigma
Xi
(f) American
Association for the Advancement of Science
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