Patrick E. Palmer

Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the College

Education: SB 1963 (Physics) Univ. of Chicago; MA 1965, PhD 1968 (Physics) Harvard

Contact Information

Phone: (773) 702-7972
Location: AAC 108
Email: ppalmeroskar.uchicago.edu

Research

Palmer's primary research interest is star formation. Radio spectroscopic studies probe the densest parts of the interstellar medium where stars have recently formed or are about to form. As a hobby, he also studies comets because the environment of a comet's coma is fairly similar to interstellar gas, and because comets are the most pristine remaining sample of the material from which our star, the Sun, formed.

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