Gary Hill
By McDonald Observatory
December 1, 2023
Gary Hill is the McDonald Observatory Chief Astronomer and Research Professor in UT Austin’s Astronomy Department. His role is to lead the development of cutting-edge instrumentation for faint objects and cosmology. He led the Wide Field Upgrade of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) as well as the first and second generation HET low resolution spectrographs and VIRUS, the world’s largest integral field spectrograph utilized for the HETDEX project. Gary’s interests include observational cosmology, the evolution of galaxies and quasars, and forefront technology for ground based telescopes.
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