Sallie L. Baliunas

Sallie L. Baliunas is Deputy director at Mount Wilson Observatory and an Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Baliunas studies visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars; structure, variations, and activity in cool stars; evolution of stellar angular momentum; solar variability and global change; adaptive optics; exoplanets of Sun-like stars.

Awards

She has received the Newton-Lacy-Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Petr Beckmann Award for Scientific Freedom, and the Bok Prize from Harvard University

In 1991 Discover magazine profiled her as one of America's outstanding women scientists.

Links

• work bio
• Lecture on solar variability vs. carbon dioxide as a source of "global warming"
• links to select works] - compiled by the Marshall Institute