By the Daily Press staff
Renowned astronomer Alan Dressler will discuss the nature, history and evolution of galaxies in the second installment of Santa Monica College’s 2003 “Distinguished Scientists Lecture Series,” a free series of talks designed for lay audiences.
“Galaxy, Star, Planet, Life — The NASA Origins Program” will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30 in Lecture Hall 140 of the SMC Science Complex, 1900 Pico Blvd. Dressler is a prize-winning scientist with The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena. He has also done studies on black holes and, working with ground telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, has obtained observations of very distant galaxies.
In 1984, he received the Newton Lacey Pierce Prize, awarded by the American Astronomical Society. The author of “The Voyage to the Great Attractor,” Dressler received his bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of California at Berkeley and his doctorate at the Lick Observatory of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
The lecture series is sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that raises funds for speakers and special events on campus. For more information, call (310) 434-4003.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 24, 2003. Read the original PDF.