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Michael Lampton
Michael Logan Lampton (March 1, 1941 – June 9, 2023) was an American astronaut, scientist, and founder of the optical ray tracing company Stellar Software. He was also known for his paper on electroacoustics with Susan M Lea, The theory of maximally flat loudspeaker systems.
Michael Logan Lampton was born March 1, 1941, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1961, while Lampton was attending Caltech he was one of the "Fiendish Fourteen", 14 students responsible for the Great Rose Bowl Hoax. He was married to San Francisco State University graduate professor and theoretical astrophysicist, Susan M. Lea,. They had one daughter, Jennifer Lea Lampton.
Michael Lampton died in Oakland, California, on June 9, 2023, at the age of 82.
Lampton was heavily involved with the SNAP project. SNAP, the Supernova/Acceleration Probe, was to study exploding stars called supernovae, as well as the gentle smearing of the light from distant galaxies due to gravity — called weak gravitational lensing — and put limits on what may or may not be the force driving the outward pull on the Universe. SNAP was to investigate over one thousand square degrees of sky with a 500 megapixel camera.
SNAP was part of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), a cooperative venture between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. SNAP collaborators John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in physics. The SNAP was superseded by the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST)., and now the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – or Roman Space Telescope, – a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. The telescope was initially developed as the WFIRST, and renamed in 2020 to honor Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy. Roman has been called the “mother” of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Lampton was heavily involved with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe. It will obtain optical spectra for tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, constructing a 3D map spanning the nearby universe to 11 billion light years.
Lampton was heavily involved with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer project.
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Michael Lampton
Michael Logan Lampton (March 1, 1941 – June 9, 2023) was an American astronaut, scientist, and founder of the optical ray tracing company Stellar Software. He was also known for his paper on electroacoustics with Susan M Lea, The theory of maximally flat loudspeaker systems.
Michael Logan Lampton was born March 1, 1941, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1961, while Lampton was attending Caltech he was one of the "Fiendish Fourteen", 14 students responsible for the Great Rose Bowl Hoax. He was married to San Francisco State University graduate professor and theoretical astrophysicist, Susan M. Lea,. They had one daughter, Jennifer Lea Lampton.
Michael Lampton died in Oakland, California, on June 9, 2023, at the age of 82.
Lampton was heavily involved with the SNAP project. SNAP, the Supernova/Acceleration Probe, was to study exploding stars called supernovae, as well as the gentle smearing of the light from distant galaxies due to gravity — called weak gravitational lensing — and put limits on what may or may not be the force driving the outward pull on the Universe. SNAP was to investigate over one thousand square degrees of sky with a 500 megapixel camera.
SNAP was part of the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), a cooperative venture between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. SNAP collaborators John Mather and George Smoot were awarded the 2006 Nobel prize in physics. The SNAP was superseded by the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST)., and now the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – or Roman Space Telescope, – a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics. The telescope was initially developed as the WFIRST, and renamed in 2020 to honor Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy. Roman has been called the “mother” of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Lampton was heavily involved with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project.
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe. It will obtain optical spectra for tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, constructing a 3D map spanning the nearby universe to 11 billion light years.
Lampton was heavily involved with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer project.