PAUL GREEN

Quasars, Carbon Stars, Bass Guitars...

GOOD QUOTES:

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde

"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
- Chairman Mao Tse Tung

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho

WELCOME! I'm an Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

My CV (PDF format)

My RESEARCH

SCIENCE EDUCATION , including my 2002 book on
Peer Instruction For Astronomy (a teacher's guide for introductory undergraduate astronomy). See some popular science articles too.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory where I work in the Director's Office. And a video where I philosophize about the Universe, Chandra and my job!

HOBBIES especially playing bass with The Wicked Pickers . Before that, J.P. Tropicale with Cornell Coley, before that, the Little Big Band Feed the Meter .



My email address is pgreen at cfa dot harvard dot edu
Phone is (617)495-7057 and FAX (617)495-7356, at the
Center for Astrophysics,
60 Garden St., Cambridge MA 02138


The image backgound is from Hubble, showing a distant cluster of (mostly red) galaxies acting as a gravitational lens, producing the optical illusion of 4 (blue) images of the same background quasar.
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