Bios
Dr. George Rieke
Principal Investigator, Multiband Imaging Photometer,
Spitzer Space Telescope
Dr. George Rieke is the principal investigator of the multiband imaging photometer, which provides imaging and spectroscopic data at far-infrared wavelengths for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. He is a regents professor in the department of astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the deputy director of Steward Observatory in Tucson. Rieke has worked extensively in the development of innovative far-infrared detector arrays and instrumentation, and their astronomical applications. He helped develop the first infrared-optimized telescope and is the lead scientist on a mid-infrared instrument for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2011. He is the author of the book, "Detection of Light: From the Ultraviolet to the Submillimeter."
