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The Thirty Meter Telescope Sponsored by: UCO Lick Astonomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory at UC Santa Cruz is the Project Scientist for the Thirty Meter Telescope and a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz. Jerry brings great experience as the principal designer and project scientist for the world’s largest optical telescopes, the twin W. M. Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to his job with TMT, including recent work on Keck’s state-of-the-art adaptive optics systems. He has earned numerous honors for his work on the Keck Telescope and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1996. Jerry received his B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in elementary particle physics from UC Berkeley. Jerry is the founding director of the Center for Adaptive Optics, an NSF funded Science and Techonology Center. He was the director from 1999 to 2004.

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