Karen Strom
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August 18, 1941
- Astronomer
- Photographer
Karen Strom | |
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| Born | Karen Marie Lewallen[1] August 18, 1941 Fairfax, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 2014 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
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| Spouse | Stephen Strom |
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| Doctoral students | Lori Allen |
| Website | karenstrom |
Karen Marie Strom (née Lewallen; August 18, 1941 – April 29, 2014) was an American astronomer known for her work on stellar evolution and T Tauri stars,[2] and described as a "world leader in the study of star formation".[3] She was also a fine art photographer whose work is in the collections of multiple museums, and a historian of Native American culture.[4]
Strom was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma, on August 18, 1941. After graduating from Harvard College in 1964, she worked for several years at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In 1969, she followed her husband Stephen Strom to Stony Brook University as a research associate, and in 1972 they moved again to the Kitt Peak National Observatory, in Tucson, Arizona.[2] They moved again to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983,[2][3] where Strom became a research associate and later Senior Research Fellow,[3] returning to Tucson in 1998.[4] She died on April 29, 2014.[5][6]
