James christy biography
- James Walter "Jim" Christy is an American astronomer known for discovering Charon, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto.
- James Walter "Jim" Christy (born September 15, 1938) is an American astronomer known for discovering Charon, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto.
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Jim Christy
Retired American government employee (born 1951)
For the South African cricketer, see Jim Christy (cricketer). For the American astronomer, see James W. Christy.
Jim Christy (born 1951) is an American government employee, who retired from his position as the Director of Futures Exploration (FX) for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center in 2013. FX was in charge of establishing strategic relationships between the US Government and private agencies and academia. Christy was the Director of the Defense Cyber Crime Institute from 2003 to 2006, and Director of Operations of the Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory from 2001 to 2003.
Christy was chief of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) computer crime investigations unit from 1989 to 1996. As the founder of the world's largest digital forensics shop, he is notable for his involvement in high priority government computer security.[1]
Christy joined the Air Force when he was 19.[2] He later became a computer operator at the Pentagon, and got a job as a computer crime
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JIM CHRISTY is touched to be returning to Villanova Theatre for the first time since his retirement from the Theatre Department eight years ago. He was a professor here for thirty-nine years and the bulk of his creative work took place on Vasey Stage from the premiere of David Rabe’s Bones in 1969 (which went on to win a Tony Award) to the the summer theatre he ran during his thirteen year tenure as chair, from specially loved productions such as Woyzeck and an undergrad production of Taming of the Shrew with a senior named Peter Donohue, to the multiple Barrymore award winning collaboration with Harriet Power on both parts of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. He has directed professionally in Philadelphia and at Shakespeare festivals around the country. In 2005, he was honored with Philadelphia’s Barrymore award for Lifetime Achievement, a real highlight of his longtime career as a director and educator in Philadelphia.
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James W. Christy
ASTRONOMER
1938 - Today
James W. Christy
James Walter "Jim" Christy (born September 15, 1938) is an American astronomer known for discovering Charon, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James W. Christy has received more than 67,273 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. James W. Christy is the 345th most popular astronomer (down from 208th in 2019), the 4,926th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,135th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, James W. Christy ranks 345 out of 644. Before him are Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Daniel Kirkwood, Adriaan van Maanen, Edward Sabine, Hugo von Seeliger, and Charles Dillon Perrine. After him are Frank Muller, Johann
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