Description
Papers of Arthur M. Wolfe (1939-2014), American astrophysicist who for a decade directed the Center for Astrophysics and Space
Sciences (CASS) at UC San Diego. Wolfe was recognized for his discoveries of star formations and the early universe.
Background
Arthur M. Wolfe was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 29th 1939. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in Queens, completed
his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from City College of New York's Queens College in 1961, and completed his Masters
of Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey in 1963. Wolfe earned his PhD at the University of Texas,
Austin in 1967, held post-doctoral fellowships at University of California, San Diego and University of Cambridge in the UK,
and was an Exchange Fellow at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1971.