Stan Owocki

Stan Owocki is an Emeritus Professor within the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1982 and had post-doctoral positions at Harvard University and University of California, San Diego before joining the faculty at U. Delaware in 1987. Co-author of more than 300 scientific papers, his research focuses on mass loss from luminous, massive stars. He has extensive experience of teaching at both the undergraduate...See more

Stan Owocki is an Emeritus Professor within the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1982 and had post-doctoral positions at Harvard University and University of California, San Diego before joining the faculty at U. Delaware in 1987. Co-author of more than 300 scientific papers, his research focuses on mass loss from luminous, massive stars. He has extensive experience of teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, with his flagship "Fundamentals of Astrophysics" course laying the foundation for this text. See less