Areas of Interest:
- Adaptive optics
- Instrumentation
- Extrasolar planets
- Telescope design and optical fabrication
- Geoengineering
- Concentrating photovoltaic solar energy
Phone: (520) 621-6541
Office: Steward Room N412B
E-mail: rangel@as.arizona.edu
Personal Website: http://caao.as.arizona.edu/rangel/rangel.html
Over the past 25 years Professor Angel has been in the forefront of a technological renaissance in telescopes and large optics. The Mirror Lab has made the optics for several telescopes, including the two largest mirrors ever (8.4 m diameter) for the Large Binocular Telescope on Mt. Graham, Arizona and is now making 8.4 m mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Angel has also developed concepts for imaging and searching for primitive life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars. He has explored ways to cool the Earth with a space sunshade, and is now working on concentrating photovoltaic systems for solar energy.
Professional Affiliations and Awards:
- National Academy of Sciences, member
- The Royal Society, fellow
- MacArthur Fellow, 1996-2001
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member
- American Astronomical Society, member
- Joseph Fraunhofer/Robert M. Burley Prize, Optical Society of America, 2007
- Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation, 2006
- St. Peter's College, Oxford University, Honorary Fellow, 1993
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, 1976
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1970-1974
- Henry Koffler Prize, 2002
- UA Galileo Circle Fellow, 2007