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9/27/12
'Heroic Galileo' The Topic For Talk At St. Lawrence
CANTON - Chris Corbally, vice director of the Vatican Observatory, will give a talk titled "Heroic Galileo and the Message in the Stars" on Monday, October 15, at 7 p.m. in Herring-Cole at St. Lawrence University. The event, the Niles Memorial Lecture in Science and Religion, is open to the public, free of charge.
Corbally was born near London in and entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1963. He completed the licentiate in philosophy at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire; his bachelor's degree in physics at Bristol University and his master's degree in astronomy at the University of Sussex in Brighton. He was ordained in 1976, the year that he earned a degree in theology from Heythrop College, London, where he also gained a Pastoral Diploma. After ordination, Corbally earned the Ph.D. in astronomy, at the University of Toronto. Since then, he has been a research astronomer of the Vatican Observatory and is currently vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona.
He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and the American Astronomical Society, and he is the national representative of the Vatican City State for the International Astronomical Union. Corbally also serves as a council member of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. His research interests include multiple-star systems, stellar-spectral classification, peculiar and metal-weak stars, galactic structure and telescope technology.
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