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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Claude R.
Canizares is the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT. He is also an
associate provost at MIT and associate director for MIT of the Chandra
X-Ray Observatory Center. Prof. Canizares earned his B.A., M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a
postdoctoral fellow in 1971 and joined the physics faculty in 1974. In
1984, he was made a full professor. From 1990 to 2002, Prof. Canizares
was the director of MIT's Center for Space Research (now known as the
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research).
