Frank Summers
Hi, my name is Frank Summers, I’m an outreach and
visualization astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute. I’m American and the story of how I came to work
at the STScI is rather different from most peoples as I have a 20 year
background in dance. In high school I
was voted best actor. I like all kinds
of dance including tap and ballroom dancing, I was a director and choreographer
of dance productions whilst at Berkeley college and Princeton before I then
went on to work on IMAX productions. I
helped to design the Hayden Planetarium in
I have worked
at the STScI since 2001. At school I was
good at maths and have always enjoyed solving problems, especially those
involving physics. It was because of
this that I became interested in astronomy.
I have 2 children, one aged 3 and one aged 8. In my spare time I still enjoy ballroom
dancing, I like to see films, not just movies but good quality films. I also like to go wine tasting whenever I’m
in
See my
homepage: http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/