Kinney, A. L. (Anne Louise)
Oral history interview with Anne Kinney, 2020 July 27 and August 18.
Interview with Anne Kinney, Deputy Center Director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Kinney recounts her childhood in Wisconsin and her early interests in science. She describes her undergraduate experience at the University of Wisconsin where she pursued degrees in physics and astronomy. Kinney discusses her time in Denmark at the Niels Bohr Institute before completing her graduate work at NYU relating to the International Ultraviolet Explorer. She explains the opportunities leading to her postdoctoral appointment at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore where she focused on obtaining optical data and near-infrared data to understand spectral energy distribution for quasars and blazars. Kinney discusses her work on the aberrated Hubble Telescope and her new job at NASA Headquarters where she became head of Origins before she was transferred to Goddard where she became division direct of the Planetary Division. She describes Goddards efforts to promote diversity and she describes her subsequent position as chief scientist at Keck Observatory before returning to Washington to join the National Science Foundation to be head of the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Kinney provides a broad view of the NSF budgetary environment, and she explains the circumstances that led her back to NASA to her current work. She describes where Goddard fits into NASAs overall mission and she explains her interest in promoting NASA in an educational framework to children. At the end of the interview, Kinney conveys her excitement about the James Webb Telescope and why she is committed to ensuring that NASA is a driver behind the broader effort to make astronomy and physics more diverse.
Anne Kinney is the Deputy Center Director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Kinney completed her graduate studies at NYU and a postdoctoral appointment at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. She has also worked at NASA Headquarters, the Keck Observatory, and the National Science Foundation.
Kinney, A. L. (Anne Louise)
Urry, Claudia Megan
Weiler, Edward John, 1949-
Chandra X-ray Observatory (U.S.)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
IUE (Artificial satellite)
James Webb Space Telescope (Spacecraft)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
New York University
Niels Bohr institutet
Space Telescope Science Institute (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
W.M. Keck Observatory.
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Diversity in the workplace
Quasars
Science -- Study and teaching
Spectral energy distribution.
Women in science
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA