Professor Richard Conn Henry


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Dick Henry is President of The Henry Foundation, Inc.,
which sponsors improved worldwide understanding of physics (see many bullets, below).

Just as with YOU, perhaps, Time Magazine identifies Richard Conn Henry (implictly only; and among many, many others !) as "2006 Person of the Year," honoring Dick's creation of his Family Tree web site.

Dick Henry is Vice President of The Streit Council for a Union of Democracies.

Dick is also a Board Member, and investor ($5000) in, Owen Software, creators of Pathevo.

Dick is a Professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at
The Johns Hopkins University , where he is also

Director of Maryland Space Grant Consortium


, a member of the Principal Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; and a member of the JHU Center for Astrophysical Sciences. Since 1991, Dick has also served as Director, Maryland Space Grant Consortium Observatory, which is located atop the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, and which houses the Morris W. Offit telescope, a fine half-meter reflector. Dick is also a Co-Director of the Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Academy. From 1998 until July 2000, Dick Henry was Chair of the National Council of Space Grant Directors, and, from its creation in 1991 until 2006 December 31, he served as Board Member and Treasurer of the National Space Grant Foundation. He is currently a Director of the National Space Grant Alliance, a 501(c)(4) organization. From 1976 to 1978 he was Deputy Director of the Astrophysics Division of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA. He is a past Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. He was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1940, and he became a U. S. citizen in 1973.

Dick Henry was graduated from Ridley College in 1957, and obtained a B.Sc. (1961) at University College, University of Toronto, where he won the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Gold Medal. He obtained an M.A. in 1962, and a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1967. Dick likes re-reading the old Nero Wolfe novels.

He has been a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, research physicist at the
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, and a Lecturer at the Latin American School of Space Research in Argentina. He has conducted astronomical investigations at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, and at both Las Campanas and Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatories in Chile, and has participated in many rocket-astronomy experiments. Hey, so Dick is a rocket scientist. He has made observations using the Copernicus and IUE satellites and also the Hubble Space Telescope and the Mariner 9 spacecraft (at Mars), and was a co-investigator on Apollo 17 and also on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, and was a co-investigator on the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope. He was a Principal Investigator in the study of the lunar material, and he is the Principal Investigator for the Hopkins Ultraviolet Background Explorer (HUBE) , which was selected in 1996 April as a NASA MIDEX program alternate project. HUBE, in 2001, became a part of the highly-rated BEST round-three MIDEX mission. In 2003 HUBE was again proposed to NASA, this time as a SMEX candidate mission. But, sad to say, on 2003 November 4, the HUBE proposal was declined by NASA. Dick Henry has participated in eclipse expeditions to Quebec (in 1972), India (1980) and East Africa (1973 and 1980). He was a member of the group which discovered the first x-ray pulsar. Dr. Henry has more than one hundred and ninety publications (now with live links), on topics including theoretical astrophysics, observational astronomy, radio astronomy, ultraviolet astronomy, and x-ray astronomy. For more information, please consult Henry's cv.

... this page was last updated 2008 June 07

Dick Henry ...
... in 2008 June presents a poster on Teaching Special Relativity at the Third International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime in Montreal
... presented a poster at AAS St. Louis in 2008 June, "SETI in the Ecliptic Plane" At the invitation of the AAS, Dick participated in a Press Conference on his work.
... is delighted to join Steve Kilston and Seth Shostack at Astrobiology Science Conference 2008
... suggests that "Minkowski trumps Einstein"
... reviews "The God Theory" by Bernard Haisch
... congratulates Glen Fountain (THE GAZETTE, 2007 July 6)
... attended, on 2007 July 3, a Colorado Space Grant balloon launch
... has created an illustration of the famous Delayed Choice Experiment
... in this 50th anniversary year, recalls 1957 October 4, in Toronto, on Bloor Street, learning of Sputnik: little dreaming that I would become a Principal Investigator in the US Lunar Program!
... has had an email from Mathematica indicating that the problem I discovered is FIXED in 6.0
(I'll check it out when I receive my CD with 6.0 on it....
...but maybe someone would like to check it out and let me know?)
2007 July 6: received CD, tried it out: the problem is NOT fixed! I have alerted Mathematica.
... trys to help you, in your pondering of the problem of the Cosmological Constant
... on May 28 reports new GALEX results at the AAS meeting in Hawaii
... and colleagues report on Dust Optical Properties in Coalsack (astro-ph 0705.1752)
... and Steve Palmquist take notice of comments and new work by
                Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger
... Advocates Universal Use of Universal Time
... attended, in 2007 January, a Conference on Ultimate Reality
... reviews "Quantum Enigma" by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
... takes notice of "Is our Universe natural?" by Sean Carroll
... says "Hurrah for Pluto, the most important Dwarf Planet! And UP with New Horizons,
        FIRST mission EVER to a Dwarf Planet!"!
... is now celebrating the current interglacial!
... reviews "Not Even Wrong" and "The Trouble with Physics"
... has become deeply interested in stellar aberration
... reports the first fruits of his GALEX program (with Jayant Murthy, Luciana Bianchi, N. V. Sujatha, and P. Shalima) in the Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics
... thanks the late Charles Schulz for penetrating insight
... has submitted to "The Physics Teacher" a modern paper on relativity
... asks if you can, with no equipment, accurately measure Earth's size in about ten seconds?
... wants you to evaluate:   i i  before you ... CLICK ME to find the answer
... published Planetary Pretzels with Owen Gingerich.
... cannot suppress the embarrassing fact that a Planetary Alignment marks the date of his birth.
... is an American Physical Society Einstein 1905 - 2005 Lecturer
          Mercy High School, Baltimore, MD, 2005 Oct 4
          Avon Grove Charter School, West Grove, PA, 2006 Feb 8
          Millersville University physics seniors, Millersville, PA, 2006 Feb 8
          SUNY/Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2006 Mar 27
... has discovered (and is causing to be corrected) a serious deficiency in Mathematica!
... had a great time in India ! Thank you, Professor Jayant Murthy!
... & colleagues: "FUV Scattering by Dust in Orion" (astro-ph/0601388) in press , MNRAS.
... & colleagues, had a GALEX poster at 2006 January AAS Meeting, Washington, DC.
... & colleagues, is pleased to have had another FUSE Proposal accepted.
Also: who wins time on FUSE ? (Cycles 1-7 merged, and JHU winners in red).
... 's 1993 Acura Legend has gone as far as the Moon. ( Mike Griffin ... eat your heart out ! )
... celebrates Einstein's 1905 anniversary year with E = mc2.
... visited colleagues Jayant Murthy, N. V. Sujatha, and P. Shalima ... in 2006 January. Dick stayed at the Bell Craig Guest house in St Andrews, and the Taj West End Hotel in Bangalore.
... with Luciana Bianchi, Jayant Murthy, and P. Shalima ... is pleased to have again been successful in the GALEX Guest Investigator program.
... with N. V. Sujatha, P. Shalima, and Jayant Murthy ... has, Astrophysical Journal, in press, "Dust Properties in the FUV in Ophiuchus," astro-ph/0507125
... has made a contribution to this Nature essay series ...
"The mental Universe," by Richard Conn Henry => here is the submitted (i.e. longer) version
"Dynamic Universe," by Freeman Dyson
"Physics, complexity and causality," by George F. R. Ellis
... with colleagues Jayant Murthy and David Sahnow, presented a paper on FUSE observations of Orion, at the 2005 January AAS meeting, in San Diego.
... thanks those who directed me to two wonderful art collections
... pays tribute to the greatest physicist who ever lived!
has become intrigued by Twistors.
wants you to understand Quantum Mechanics.
is proud of the Maryland Space Grant Consortium balloon launch of 2004 May 25 by Adeboyejo Oni, Mary Bowden, and Lisa LaCivita, aided by their assistants and students.
and his colleagues, P Shalima, Jayant Murthy, and Luciana Bianchi submitted a successful GALEX Guest Observer proposal. Here are : the GALEX team planned observations, shown with the TD1 Catalog stars; and here are: our Southern Voyager observations (red); and here are: our Northern Voyager observations (red), both shown with the GALEX team planned observatons.
has become interested in Calendar Reform, and presented a Paper on the CCC&T Calendar at the Atlanta AAS meeting.
authored the paper "Studying the diffuse ultraviolet background radiation with tomography," recently published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" (2003, volume 411, page 313) [movie]
... does rather fear heights, BUT he could not resist climbing: Arecibo!
was a speaker (with Michio Kaku and others) at the Symposium on Interstellar Travel and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Science Fiction or Science Fact? 2002 November 8, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Symposium Moderator: Ray Suarez
and his colleagues presented two posters, "Voyager Observations of Diffuse Ultraviolet Light Shortward of Lyman Alpha," and "A MIDEX Mission to Spectrally Analyse the Diffuse X-ray and Ultraviolet Background," at the 2002 April AAS-HEAD/APS meeting in Albuquerque, NM
has the paper "The Local Interstellar Ultraviolet Radiation Field," in the 2002 May 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal
presented a POSTER at the 2002 January AAS meeting in Washington, DC
with Jayant Murthy, Robin Shelton, and Jay Holberg, has published in the Astrophysical Journal (Letters):"Upper Limits on OVI Emission from Voyager Observations"
has published in the Astrophysical Journal: "Kretchmann Scalar for a Kerr-Newman Black Hole"
is junior author on a paper that is in the 2000 July issue of the American Journal of Physics: "Circular Motion"
and his family visited Hawai`i in 1999 June
delivered a paper, "Meet the (National Council of) Space Grant Directors," at AAS Meeting #194, Chicago,1999, June 3
has papers "Diffuse Background Radiation," Astrophysical Journal Letters, 516, L49 (1999) and "An Analysis of 17 Years of Voyager Observations," Astrophysical Journal, 522, 904 (1999)
delivered a talk, "Tour of the Universe," to the '49ers, Johns Hopkins Alumni, on 1999 April  23. Dick was introduced by noted astronomer William Sinton
By golly, here's a view of Dick Henry's office in the Bloomberg Center: well, this WAS his office. All those journals have now been trashed!

Dick Henry has been (1997) a Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, where his son, George W. Henry, in 2005 was awarded his M.A. in Biochemistry. George is now living in Davis, CA. Dick's younger son, Mark Winston Henry, has just completed his third year at St Andrews. Last summer, Mark was be an intern at The Streit Council for a Union of Democracies; the summer of 2008, Mark is an intern with the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
Dick Henry is a Member, Principal Professional Staff, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
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