EDUCATION

• B.A., Astronomy, Harvard University, 1969
• M.S., Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1970
• Ph.D., Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1971

• Acting Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Delaware, fall semester
• Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness, University of Delaware
• 1981- Present Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
• 1977 - 1981 Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware
• Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, (also Astronomer, McDonnell Planetarium)
• J. Willard Gibbs Instructor, Yale University

• Visiting Fellow, Science Education Department, University of Georgia, 1994
• Visiting Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1988
• Visiting Fellow, University of Arizona, 1980

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1980-1981
• Outstanding Volunteer Award, Delaware Science Alliance, 1994
• University of Delaware Awards: Excellence in Teaching Award, 1984
• Francis Alison Award for the Outstanding Faculty Scholar, 1988
• Fellow, University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study, 1985-1986, 1991

• Internationally recognized leading scholar on the late stages of stellar life cycles.
• 1989 - Chair, Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Guest Observer Working Group, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,.
• Plenary Lecturer, American Astronomical Society, 179th meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
• 1979 - Invited review speaker at international conferences
• Peer Reviewer for NSF, NASA, and Professional Journals
• Initiator of Education, Public Relations, and Outreach Efforts in Professional Societies. Education Officer, American Astronomical Society
• Committee on Educational Policy, American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Area Committee on Astronomy Education, American Association of Physics Teachers,
• Associate Editor, American Journal of Physics
• Active contributor to government review panels. National Academy of Science "decade reviews" of astronomy: Member, Organization, Education, and Personnel Panel, Astronomy Survey Committee
• Member, Status of the Profession Panel, Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee (AASC),
• Member, Task Force on Astronomy Education, convened by the AASC, the NSF, and NASA
• National Academy of Sciences Astronomy Assessment Panel,.
• National Science Foundation, Education and Human Resources Subcommittee, Astronomy Research Section,
• Chair, EUVE Users Group, NASA
• NASA Peer Review panels
• President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Cuba Astronomical Observatory
• Member of the Board of Trustees
• Delaware Aerospace Academy Foundation: Member of the Advisory Board,
• Steering Committee, Project 21 (Delaware's Statewide Systemic Initiative),.
• 1996 - Steering Committee, Science Van Project, State of Delaware
• Harvard Alumni Association: Elected Director

1. "Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe," Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1st edition 1976; 2nd edition 1980. Translated into Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Italian.
2. "H1504+65: the Hottest Degenerate Yet?" by J. Nousek, H. Shipman, J. Liebert, J. Holberg, S. Pravdo, P. Giommi, and N. White, Astrophysical Journal, 309, 230-240, 1986.
3. "Starting Out: The Dilemma of the Beginning College Astronomy Teacher," by Harry L. Shipman, in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 105: The Teaching of Asronomy, ed. John Percy and Jay Pasachoff, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 73-76.
4. "Inefficient Accretion by the DA2 White Dwarf in V 471 Tauri," D. Mullan, H. Shipman, E. Sion, and J. MacDonald, Astrophysical Journal 374, 303, 1991.
5. "Photospheric, Circumstellar, and Interstellar Features of He, C, N, O, and Si in the HST Spectra of Four Hot White Dwarf Stars," Harry Shipman et al. (13 co-authors, all members of the HST White Dwarf Star Team), The Astronomical Journal vol. 109, in press (March 1995).

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED (1986-1996)

• Cynthia Cuddy, M.S. 1996
• Peter Thejll, Ph.D. 1989
• Jonathan Nicholas, M.S. 1993

1. Space 2000: Meeting the Challenge of a New Era, by Harry L. Shipman. 431 pages. Plenum Press, New York, 1987.
2. Humans in Space: Twenty First Century Frontiers, by Harry L. Shipman. 351 pages. Plenum Press, New York, published in April 1989.
3. Science, Technology, and Society: A Book of Readings. 190 pages. McGraw-Hill College Custom series, 1993.
4. The Way the World Works: A Book of Readings. 197 pages. Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing, 1995. Second edition, 1997.
5. All of the books published in the list above are for the general reader. In the list of articles that follows, popular and semi-popular articles, along with articles related to teaching, are indicated in boldface.
6. "An X-Ray Survey of Hot White Dwarf Stars: Evidence for a n(He) vs. T(eff) Correlation," by R. Petre, H. L. Shipman, and C. L. Canizares, Astrophysical Journal, 304 (May 1 1986), 356-364.
7. 63.KPD 2146+4117:The Coolest DBA White Dwarf, by R.A. Downes and H.L. Shipman, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 98, 99-101, 1986.
8. "Astrophysics," by Harry L. Shipman, introduction to this section of PHYSICS NEWS IN 1985, in Physics Today, (January 1986), p. S5.
9. "Circumstellar, Possibly Protoplanetary Disks," by Harry L. Shipman, PHYSICS NEWS IN 1985, in Physics Today, (January 1986), p. S6.
10. "New Telescopes for the 1990s," by Harry L. Shipman, PHYSICS NEWS IN 1985, in Physics Today, (January 1986), p. S9 - S10.
11. "The Direct Detection of the Slow Pace of Stellar Evolution," by Harry L. Shipman, PHYSICS NEWS IN 1985, in Physics Today, (January 1986), p. S11-S12.
12. "An IRAS Search for Brown Dwarf Companions to White Dwarf Stars," by Harry L. Shipman, in M. Kafatos, R.S. Harrington, and S.P. Maran, (eds)., The Astrophysics of Brown Dwarfs, Cambridge University Press, 71-75, 1986.
13. J. Liebert, F. Wesemael, C. J. Hansen, G. Fontaine, H. L. Shipman,E. M. Sion, D. E. Winget, and R. F. Green, "Temperatures for Hot and Pulsating DB White Dwarfs Obtained with the IUE Observatory, "Astrophysical Journal, 309, pp. 241-252, 1986.
14. J. Liebert, F. Wesemael, C. J. Hansen, G. Fontaine, H. L. Shipman, E.M. Sion, D. E. Winget, and R. F. Green, "Temperatures for Hot and Pulsating DB White Dwarfs Obtained with the IUE Observatory, " Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 87: Hydrogen-Deficient Stars and Related Objects.
15. Book review of Space, Time, Infinity, by J. S. Trefil. Reviewed by Harry L. Shipman, Sky and Telescope 71 (no.2, February 1986), 157-159.
16. "H1504+65: the Hottest Degenerate Yet?" by J. Nousek, H. Shipman, J. Liebert, J. Holberg, S. Pravdo, P. Giommi, and N. White, Astrophysical Journal, 309, 230-240, 1986.
17. "Planetary Nebula Central Stars:a Detailed Examination of the Zanstra Temperature Method," by R.B.C. Henry and H. L. Shipman, Astrophysical Journal 311, 774-785, 1986.
18. "CBS 78: A Second Extremely Rare DBZ Degenerate Star with accreted Calcium," by E.M. Sion, H.L. Shipman, R. Mark Wagner, J. Liebert, and S. G. Starrfield, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 308, L67-L69, 1986.
19. "EXOSAT Observations of V471 Tauri. I. a 9.25 Minute White Dwarf Pulsation and Orbital Phase Dependent X-Ray Dips," by K. A. Jensen, J. H.Swank, R. Petre, E. F. Guinan, E. M. Sion, and H.L. Shipman, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 309, L27-L31, 1986. A one-page summary of this paper was published as part of the proceedings of the 6th European workshop on white dwarfs in Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, vol. 58, p. 145, 1987.
20. "Temperature, Radius, and Rotational Velocity of Sirius B," by Peter Thejll and Harry L. Shipman, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 98, 922-926, 1986.
21. "The Creation of Order from Chaos: Making Galaxies, Stars, Planets, and People from Uniformly Expanding Matter," by Harry L. Shipman, in D. Novak and N. Samuelson, ed., Creation and the End of Days: Judaism and Scientific Cosmology, (Proceedings of the 1984 meeting of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy), (New York: Lanham, 1986), pp. 1-26.
22. "The DBA Stars in the Palomar-Green Survey," by H.L. Shipman, J. Liebert, and R. F. Green, Astrophysical Journal, 315, 239-250, 1987.
23. "A Spectrophotometric Study of Emission Line Eclipses in the Quiescent Dwarf Nova Z Cha," by T. R. Marsh, Keith Horne, and H. L. Shipman, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 225, 551-580, 1987.
24. "Voyager at Uranus," by Harry L. Shipman, in Physics News in 1986,Physics Today (January 1987), pp. S4-S5. This article was selected for publication in the Physics Teachers' CD-ROM Toolkit, directed by Robert Fuller, supported by the National Science Foundation, and scheduled for release in 1995.
25. "Some Record Breaking White Dwarf Stars," by Harry L. Shipman, in Physics News in 1986, Physics Today (January 1987), pp. S8-S9. This article was selected for publication in the Physics Teachers' CD-ROM Toolkit, directed by Robert Fuller, supported by the National Science Foundation, and scheduled for release in 1995.
26. "Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Galactic X-Ray Sources, by Harry L. Shipman, in Physics News in 1986, Physics Today (January 1987),pp. S9-S11.
27. "Astrophysics," in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, (New York: Academic Press, Inc.), vol. 2, pp. 105-137, 1987. Also included in R.A. Meyers, ed., S.N. Shore, scientific consultant, Encyclopedia of Astronomy, (San Diego: Academic Press, 1989), pp. 53-86. The most recent revision of this article was published in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, vol. 2, pp. 177-209, 1992.
28. "Trace Elements in the Photospheres of Hot White Dwarf Stars," by Harry L. Shipman, in A.G.D. Philip, D.S. Hayes, and J. Liebert (eds.),Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 95: the Second Conference on Faint Blue Stars, Schenectady, NY: L. Davis Press, 1987.
29. "Hot DA White Dwarfs Seen with EINSTEIN, an Ultrahot H- and He-poor White Dwarf, and Zanstra Temperatures of Planetary Nebula Nuclei," by Harry L. Shipman (invited review paper), in F. D'Antona, ed., "6th European Workshop on White Dwarfs," Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, vol.58, no. 1, pp. 49-52, 1987.
30. "Two Peculiar Subclasses of Cool DB Stars: the DBA's and the DBZ's," by Harry L. Shipman, (invited review paper), in F. D'Antona, ed., "6th European Workshop on White Dwarfs," Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 83-88, 1987.
31. "Hydrogen Line Emission from Optically Thin Accretion Disks," by Glen A. Williams and Harry L. Shipman, Astrophysical Journal, 326, 738-750, 1988.
32. "Butterfly Statistics, Astronomical Surveys, and the Discovery of New Classes of
33. Objects," by Peter Thejll and Harry L. Shipman, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 100, pp. 398-401, 1988.
34. The Detection of Photospheric Calcium in a DBA White Dwarf," by Scott Kenyon, Harry Shipman, Edward Sion, and Per Aannesstad, Astrophysical Journal (Letters), vol. 328, pp. l65-l68, 1988.
35. "Astronomy and Space Science," annotated bibliography of popular works on astronomy, in The Reader's Adviser: A Layman's Guide to Literature, 13th edition, vol. 5, (volume editor: Paul Durbin; series editors: Barbara Chernow and George Vallasi), pp. 168-196. (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1988).
36. Cosmically Speaking, Harry Shipman and Sharon Juska. Review of Relatively Speaking: Relativity, Black Holes, and the Fate of the Universe. By Eric Chaisson. Norton: 1987. Gravity's Lens: Views of the New Cosmology. By Nathan Cohen. Wiley: 1988. The Supernova Story. By Laurence A.Marschall. Plenum: 1988. Creation: The Story of the Origin and Evolution ofthe Universe. By Barry Parker. Plenum: 1988. The Big Bang, revised edition. By Joseph Silk. Freeman: 1989. The Dark Side of the Universe. By James Trefil. Scribners: 1988. Nature vol. 336, pp. 291-292, 17 November 1988.
37. Book review of Robert Del Tredici, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb,in Science Books and Films, vol. 24, no. 1, p. 21, September/October 1988.
38. "White Dwarf Stars," in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 131: Planetary Nebulae, ed. S. Torres Peimbert, (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1989), pp. 555-566.
39. "Starting Out: The Dilemma of the Beginning College Astronomy Teacher," in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 105: The Teaching of Astronomy, ed. John Percy and Jay Pasachoff, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 73-76.
40. "Origin of the DA and non-DA White Dwarf Stars," invited review paper, in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 114: White Dwarf Stars, ed.by G. Wegner, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989, pp. 220-235.
41. "An Unsuccessful Search for White Dwarf Companions to Nearby Main Sequence Stars, by Harry L. Shipman and Jeanne Geczi, in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 114: White Dwarf Stars, ed.by G. Wegner, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989, pp. 134-137.
42. "Cluster Analysis of the Hot Subdwarfs in the PG Survey," by Peter Thejll, Darryl Charache, and Harry L. Shipman, in Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 114: White Dwarf Stars, ed.by G. Wegner, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989, pp. 130-133.
43. Book review of Jim Lerager, In the Shadow of the Cloud: Photographs and Histories of America's Atomic Veterans, reviewed by Harry and Wendy Shipman, in Science Books and Films, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 286, May/June 1989. (Wendy Shipman was my wife at the time I wrote this review.)
44. "Harry's Hotline," in The Bright Idea Network, ed. by John Andrews, published by the Professional and Organizational Development Network (POD),1988, p. 8. This idea was a runner-up award winner for the "Bright Idea Award" at the 1988 POD conference.
45. "Far Off and Exceeding Deep," by Harry L. Shipman and Noel Hart, Nature 342, 354, November 23 1989.
46. Review of Bernard L. Lovell, Astronomer By Chance, for Science Books and Films, vol. 26, Nov.-Dec. 1990, p. 116.
47. The Hydrogen Abundance of the DBAQ Star G 35-26, by P. A. Thejll, H. L. Shipman, J. MacDonald, and W. M. MacFarland, Astrophysical Journal, 361, 197, 1990.
48. S. Vennes, H. Shipman, and R. Petre, "On the Interpretation of the EXOSAT Photometry of Two Hot DA White Dwarfs," The Astrophysical Journal 364, 647, 1990.
49. "White Dwarf Stars," invited review paper, in Roger Malina and Stuart Bowyer, (eds.), Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy, (New York: Pergamon, 1991), 43-47.
50. "EUV Radiation from Pre-Cataclysmic, Hot White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Close Binaries: V 471 Tauri and Related Objects," by E. Sion, H. Shipman, and F. Bruhweiler, and H. Shipman, in Roger Malina and Stuart Bowyer, (eds.), Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy, (New York: Pergamon, 1991), 183-185.
51. Harry, Tom, and Alice Shipman, book review of Necia H. Apfel, Voyager to the Planets, in Science Books and Films, vol. 27 (June/July 1991), pp. 139-140.
52. Apfel's book was a children's book, and so I felt it appropriate to ask my children what they thought of the book. As a result, they are co-authors of the book review.
53. P. Thejll, S. Vennes, and H. Shipman, "A Critical Analysis of the UV Temperature Scale of the Helium-Dominated DB and DBV White Dwarfs," Astrophysical Journal 370, 355, 1991.
54. S. Vennes, J. Thorstensen, P. Thejll, and H. Shipman, "The Binary Feige 24: the Mass, Radius, and Gravitational Redshift of the DA White Dwarf,' Astrophysical Journal Letters 372, L37, 1991.
55. P. Thejll, S. Vennes, and H.L. Shipman, "The Effective Temperature of the DBV's, and the Sensitivity of DB Model Atmospheres to Input Physics," in G. Vauclair and E. Sion, ed., NATO Advanced Research Workshop: 7th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991), pp. 257-268.
56. S. Vennes, P. Thejll, and H. Shipman, "Abundance of Trace Heavy Elements in Hot DA White Dwarfs," in G. Vauclair and E. Sion, eds., NATO Advanced Research Workshop: 7th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991), pp. 235-248.
57. P. Thejll, J. MacDonald, and H. Shipman, "The DBAQ G 35-26" in G. Vauclair and E. Sion, eds., NATO Advanced Research Workshop: 7th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991), pp. 275-284.
58. H. Shipman, P. Thejll, S. Bhatia, and J. Liebert, "A Search for Trace Amounts of Hydrogen in DB Stars," in G. Vauclair and E. Sion, eds., NATO Advanced Research Workshop: 7th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991), pp. 229-234.
59. H. Shipman, "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of White Dwarf Stars," in G. Vauclair and E. Sion, eds., NATO Advanced Research Workshop: 7th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991), pp. 369-378.
60. D. Mullan, H. Shipman, E. Sion, and J. MacDonald, "Inefficient Accretion by the DA2 White Dwarf in V 471 Tauri," Astrophysical Journal 374, 303, 1991.
61. S. Vennes, P. Chayer, J. Thorstensen, S. Bowyer, and H. Shipman, "Iron Abundances in the Hot DA White Dwarfs Feige 24 and G 191-B2B," Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 392, L27, 1992.
62. Harry L. Shipman, Maurice Barnhill, Howard Bond, Fred Bruhweiler, David Finley, Gilles Fontaine, Jay Holberg, Detlev Koester, Jim Liebert, Terry Oswalt, John Nousek, Scott Roby, Ed Sion, Richard Tweedy, and Francois Wesemael, "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of White Dwarf Stars," in M. A. Barstow, ed., White Dwarfs: Advances in Observation and Theory Proceedings of the NATO Workshop on White Dwarf Stars, 1993, pp. 295-302.
63. Harry L. Shipman, "Workshop Summary," transcribed remarks, in M. A. Barstow, ed., White Dwarfs: Advances in Observation and Theory (Proceedings of the NATO Workshop on White Dwarf Stars, 1993, pp. 555-560.
64. H. L. Shipman, book review of John H. Mauldin, Prospects for Interstellar Travel, in Science Books and Films, March 1993, pp. 39-40.
65. H. Shipman, review of John Boslough, Masters of Time: Cosmology at the End of Innocence, reviewed in Sky and Telescope, February 1993, p. 55.
66. Harry L. Shipman, "Astronomy and Space Science," annotated bibliography of popular works on astronomy, in The Reader's Adviser: A Layman's Guide to Literature, 14th edition, vol. 5, (Charles Roebuck, project editor, (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1994)
67. Significant revision of "Gravitational Lens," in S. P. Parker, ed., McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
68. H. L. Shipman and Kim Heaton, review os Susan Goodman, Amazing Spacefacts, in Science Books and Films, vol. 30 (#1), January/February 1994, p. 15.
69. "RE1738+665: Plugging the Generation Gap" (News and Views, solicited review article); Nature 372, 1994, pp. 318-319.
70. P. Thejll, F. Bauer, R. Saffer, J. Liebert, D. Kunze, and H. Shipman, "Analysis of Helium-Rich Subdwarf O Stars. I. Models, Methods, and Fits for 21 Palomar Green Survey sdOs," Astrophysical Journal 433, 819-830, 1994.
71. "Hyperspace" and "Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy," book review in Sky and Telescope, March 1995, pp. 57-59.
72. Harry Shipman, Maurice Barnhill, Judi Provencal, Scott Roby, Irmela Bues, France Cordova, Gordon Hammond, Paul Hintzen, Detlev Koester, James Liebert, Terry Oswalt, Sumner Starrfield, Gary Wegner, and Volker Weidemann, "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Cool White Dwarf Stars: Detection of New Species of Heavy Elements," The Astronomical Journal, vol. 109, pp. 1231-1238 (March 1995).
73. Harry Shipman, Judi Provencal, Scott Roby, Martin Barstow, Howard Bond, Fred Bruhweiler, David Finley, Gilles Fontaine, Jay Holberg, John Nousek, Ed Sion, Richard Tweedy, F. Wesemael, and Gerard Vauclair, "Photospheric, Circumstellar, and Interstellar Features of He, C, N, O, and Si in the HST Spectra of Four Hot White Dwarf Stars," The Astronomical Journal vol. 109, pp. 1220-1230 (March 1995).
74. Harry L. Shipman (principal author), "EUVE Science: Past, Present, and Future," in EUVE Science Bulletin (January 1995), Vol. 24, pp. 1-37. Although this journal is not refereed, this article is probably one of the most important "papers" I have written. It is a proposal for the continuation of the EUVE mission which was presented and submitted to a NASA Senior Review Panel in November 1994. Our proposal was successful.
75. Harry Shipman, "The HST White Dwarf Project: V 471 Tauri and Procyon B," in D. Koester and K. Werner (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Hot White Dwarf Stars, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995), 248-253.
76. J. L. Provencal and H.L. Shipman, "Ionized Helium and Carbon in the DBV GD 358," in D. Koester and K. Werner (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Hot White Dwarf Stars, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995), 298.
77. Book review of David H. Levy, THE QUEST FOR COMETS: AN EXPLOSIVE TRAIL OF BEAUTY AND DANGER, by Harry Shipman and Carrie Rightmire, Science Books and Films May 1996, p. 109.
78. "How Do We Know It's a Black Hole? by Harry L. Shipman, Sky And Telescope (May 1996), 42-43.
79. Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the DBV White Dwarf Star GD 358, by J.L. Provencal, H. L. Shipman, P. Thejll, S. Vennes, and P. A. Bradley, The Astrophysical Journal 466, 1011-1017, 1996 August 1.
80. "Spend More on Teaching, not less," by Harry Shipman and Valerie Bergeron, "Delaware Voice" column, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, October 6, 1996, page C4.