Howard E. Bond

Past and Current Positions

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1969-70
• Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1970-75
• Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1975-79
• Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, 1979-84
• Astronomer (tenured), Space Telescope Science Institute, 1984-2008
• Astronomer Emeritus, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2008-present
• Adjunct Professor of Practice, Member of the Graduate Faculty, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 2013-present

Journal and Book Editorships

• Managing Editor, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1991-97
• Editor of Volume 2, Planets, Stars, and Stellar Systems (published 2013)

Prizes and Awards

• Co-recipient, Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (for Hubble Heritage project), 2003
• Co-recipient, Education Prize of the American Astronomical Society (for Hubble Heritage project), 2007
• Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, 2020

Education

• B.S. (Physics), University of Illinois, 1964
• M.S. (Astronomy), University of Michigan, 1965
• Ph.D. (Astronomy), University of Michigan, 1969

Research Interests

• V838 Monocerotis and the new classes of luminous red transients
• Light echoes
• Planetary nebulae and their central stars
• Post-asymptotic-giant-branch (post-AGB) stars
• Extragalactic distance scale
• Extrasolar planets
• Astrometry and trigonometric parallaxes
• Novae and cataclysmic variable stars
• White dwarfs
• Close binary and variable stars; global monitoring
• Globular clusters
• Visual binary stars
• Stellar chemical compositions
• Peculiar red giants
• Population II and III stars

• Before becoming Emeritus in August 2008, I was in the Wide Field Camera 3 group.
• Editor of the WFC3 Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17.
• I was also Chair of the HST Telescope Time Review Board.
• Although formally retired, I am continuing research.

• Co-Investigator and Co-Founder, Hubble Heritage Program
• Councilor, American Astronomical Society, 1987-89
• Manager, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship program, 1994-2002
• Hubble Education and Outreach Scientist, STScI Office of Public Outreach, 2002-2004
• Received Hubble Space Telescope observing time (PI or CoI) in 30 out of 31 review cycles, 1990-2023 [Cycle 30 was the one dry year]; and in all three James Webb Space Telescope review cycles, 2021-2024
• NASA ADS lists 285 refereed papers (106 as first author), 803 total publications, and 12,986 citations.
• h-index = 65 (i.e., 65 publications that have each been cited at least 65 times)

What did he look like in 1974?
What did he look like in 1971??
What about 1960???


And here I am, just behind Vice President Nixon, when I was visiting the 1958 Westinghouse Science Talent Search exhibit in Washington, DC: