Professional Background
William H. Press
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Positions Held
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Integrative Biology, Leslie Surginer Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007-Laboratory Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2004-2008, emeritus 2008-
Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1998-2004
Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Harvard University, 1976-1998
Chairman, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, 1982-85
Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University, 1974-76
Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1973-74
Richard Chace Tolman Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1972-73
Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1969-72
Education
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1973 (Physics)M.S., California Insitute of Technology, 1971 (Physics)
A.B., Harvard College, 1969 (Physics)