W. M. Goss

W. Miller Goss received his undergraduate degree in astronomy from Harvard in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1967, while working on the newly discovered OH radio frequency line at the Hat Creek Observatory. He then moved to Australia to the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, first as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a staff member. In 1976, he was the recipient of the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science. From 1977 to 1986, he was on the staff of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and then professor from 1980 to 1986. In 1986, he moved to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro New Mexico (USA). He was director of the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array from 1988 to 2002. He and Dick McGee began working on Under the Radar, the First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott, in 1997. It was published in 2009 with book launches in Sydney and Canberra. At present, W.M. Goss and Claire Hooker are working on a joint biography of J.L. Pawsey and J.G. Bolton. W.M. Goss’ scientific interests are radio astronomical studies of the interstellar medium in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. W.M. Goss is currently on the scientific staff of NRAO and is the author of over 500 astronomical publications. [from page 253 of Making Waves, published in 2013]