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Wesley A. Traub
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (B.S.) University of Wisconsin - Madison (M.S.) University of Wisconsin - Madison (Ph.D.)
Awards	Fizeau Interferometry Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Astronomy.
Institutions	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thesis	Lithium Abundance in Sunspots  (1968)
Doctoral students	Rafael Millan-Gabet, Chip Coldwell, Irene Porro, Ettore Pedretti

Wesley Arthur Traub is a physicist, an astronomer and instrument builder who gave a broad and crucial contributions to the development of the field of long-baseline optical interferometry. While at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, he led the development of the Infrared Optical Telescope Array (IOTA), the first facility with a truly international character and which has arguably had the broadest and deepest influence of any facility in the last thirty years. After the development of IOTA, Traub moved to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005 to become the Chief Scientist for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program overseeing efforts related to the Space Interferometry Mission, Keck and Large Binocular Telescope Interferometers, and the Terrestrial Planet Finder. Later, Traub became the JPL Project Scientist for WFIRST pushing precision coronagraphy for exoplanet detection. Traub officially retired in 2017.

Major publications

• Traub WA, Stier MT. Theoretical atmospheric transmission in the mid-and far-infrared at four altitudes. Applied Optics. Vol. 15, Issue 2, pp. 364-377 (1976). According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 220 times.
• Traub WA, Oppenheimer BR. Direct imaging of exoplanets. Ed. S. Seager (Tucson, AZ: Univ. Arizona Press) 111 (2010). According to Google Scholar, this book has been cited 130 times.

References

Category:20th-century American astronomers