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April 8, 2013

Nircam for the James Webb Space Telescope

Frederick Arioli
Lockheed Martin

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Frederick Arioli, an SSU Physics alumnus from 1975, will be presenting a glimpse of his work at Lockheed Martin as part of the team building the NIRCam instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope. This next generation space telescope is the heir to the Hubble Telescope and has a collecting area about five times larger.