Miller Gross, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA)
Goss received his undergraduate degree in astronomy from Harvard in 1963 and a PhD from the University of California in 1967 working on the newly discovered OH radio frequency line at the Hat Creek Observatory. He then moved to Australia to the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, first as a postdoc and later as a staff member. In 1976 he was the recipient of the Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science. From 1977 to 1986 he was on the staff of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, and then professor from 1980 to 1986. In 1986 he moved to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico (USA). He was Director of the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array from 1988 to 2002. He and Dick McGee began working on the biography of Ruby Payne-Scott in 1997. His scientific interests are radio astronomical studies of the interstellar medium in the Milky Way.
