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Dr. William Pence
- Job Description: Astrophysicist
- Phone: (301) 286-4599
- e-mail: pence@tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov
William (Bill) Pence joined the HEASARC in December 1990 and has
concentrated on developing standard FITS file formats for data from
current and past high energy astronomy missions.
Bill received his PhD in astronomy in 1978 from the University of Texas at
Austin. He held research positions at the University of Sussex (UK) from
1978 to 1981, and then at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Sydney,
Australia from 1981 to 1984. Most of his scientific research has been
devoted to the study of the internal photometric and kinematic properties
of nearby spiral galaxies. He joined the Space Telescope Science Institute
from 1984 to 1990, where he was Project Scientist for development of the
Calibration Database Software System and later was head of the branch
responsible for archiving and distributing the Hubble Space Telescope data.
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