S. Harvey Moseley

Harvey Moseley's career has been dedicated to conceiving and developing technologies to advance cosmology and astrophysics. He is now at Quantum Circuits, Inc. and previously was a key member of the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer science and development team, whose leaders won the 2006 Nobel Physics prize for groundbreaking measurements of the early universe.

Moseley invented and led the advance of cryogenic X-ray microcalorimeters, which are central to the scientific capability of current and future X-ray astrophysics missions. He led the creation of microshutter arrays that provide multi-object spectroscopy on the James Webb Space Telescope. This innovation allows the JWST to study of the evolution of the earliest galaxies. He has also worked on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and Japan’s X-ray astronomy missions.

Recognition for Moseley's accomplishments include the Joseph Weber prize of the American Astronomical Society and the George Goddard Prize of the international society of optics and photonics.