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Anguel Alexiev

Biography

Anguel Alexiev’s first science-related childhood memory is of going to a NASA convention on the Mars Pathfinder landing when he was seven years old. His lifelong interest in astronomy has led him to study other sciences, including chemistry, physics, geology, and oceanography. Meanwhile, he has taught himself how to play classical guitar. He also bowls and plays ultimate frisbee regularly.

While he plans to specialize in astronomy, chemistry or both down the road, Anguel wants to stay engaged in other sciences. “Basically, I crave knowledge,” he says. Summer enrichment courses as a Young Scholar have given him a love for research, prepared him for the rigors of college, and confirmed his career path.

Anguel describes how he felt photographing the sky at sunrise on his last day at the Summer Science Program in Ojai, California. “In the thirty seconds it took for the digital camera on the back of the telescope to capture the image and display it on the screen, I had already begun imagining myself twice my age, a professional astronomer, looking through the eyepiece of a professional telescope. The photograph cemented my passion for astronomy just as it affixed on the laptop screen the object of my fancy, the Orion Nebula.”

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