Tony Tyson

Chief Scientist at Rubin Observatory

Tony Tyson is a Chief Scientist at Rubin Observatory since 2013, also working as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis since September 2004. Prior to that, Tony was the LSST Director at LSST Corporation from June 2003 to August 2013. Tyson has a background in experimental physics and has held a position as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs innovations from January 1969 to August 2004. Tony holds a BS in Physics from Stanford University, a Postdoc in Physics from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Rubin Observatory

Rubin Observatory will produce the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) beginning in 2025. The survey will image the entire visible sky in multiple colors with its 3200 megapixel digital camera (LSST Camera), probing the mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, and opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move rapidly: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, and distant Kuiper Belt Objects.


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