Keith Noll

I’m American astronomer and I work with the Hubble Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore. I knew I was going to be an astronomer from a very young age. I remember seeing a meteor whilst holding onto my mothers skirt when I was about 4. When I was 6 she gave me a book about astronomy to keep me busy while I waited for her to finish a class. She gave my brother a book on dinosaurs. He is now a geologist. Just goes to show the power of books! I was also lucky enough to have a great physics teacher. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series on TV also had a great effect on me.

What keeps me going in astronomy is when I makes a discovery. I became involved with the Hubble Heritage Project when I realized how people respond to Hubble's pictures. When these images come out, they speak to everybody.

See my homepage: http://www-int.stsci.edu/~noll/