J. Anthony Tyson

Tony Tyson is Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California, Davis.  Before that, he worked 35 years at Bell Labs in the physics division. While applying CCDs to astronomy in the early 1980’s he discovered a population of faint blue galaxies, and then pioneered the field of weak gravitational lensing using these distant galaxies as sources.  His current research is in cosmology: dark matter distribution, gravitational lens effects, cosmic shear, and the nature of dark matter and dark energy. He has led an international effort to build a new kind of telescope/camera called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.  Tyson received his B.S. in Physics from Stanford in l962 and Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from University of Wisconsin in 1967.   He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.