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| Born | Karen Marie Lewallen[1] (1941-08-18)August 18, 1941 Fairfax, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Died | April 29, 2014(2014-04-29) (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
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| Spouse | Stephen Strom |
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| Doctoral students | Lori Allen |
| Website | karenstrom |
Karen Marie Strom (née Lewallen; August 18, 1941 – April 29, 2014) was an Americanastronomer known for her work onstellar evolution andT Tauri stars,[2] and described as a "world leader in the study of star formation".[3] She was also a fine art photographer whose work is in the collections of multiple museums, and a historian ofNative American culture.[4]
Strom was born inFairfax, Oklahoma, on August 18, 1941. After graduating fromHarvard College in 1964, she worked for several years at theSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In 1969, she followed her husband Stephen Strom toStony Brook University as a research associate, and in 1972 they moved again to theKitt Peak National Observatory, inTucson, Arizona.[2] They moved again to theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983,[2][3] where Stom became a research associate and later Senior Research Fellow,[3] returning to Tucson in 1998.[4] She died on April 29, 2014.[5][6]
Strom's photograph "Chapel Grid" (1981), agelatin silver print, is in the collection of theMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston.[7] Four of her digital prints, studies of the tilework at theAlhambra from 2012 to 2013, are in the collection of theTucson Museum of Art.[8] Others of her works are in the collections of theCenter for Creative Photography at theUniversity of Arizona, theFred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at theUniversity of Oklahoma, and theSanta Barbara Museum of Art.[4]
In 1986 theNational Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Mexico gave Strom anhonorary doctorate.[4][9]
Minor planet4604 Stekarstrom, discovered in 1987, was named after Strom and her husband.[10]
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