Christine Jones Forman is a senior astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

[4] She is a past president of the American Astronomical Society, and was the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe.

She finished high school in West Carrollton, Ohio, before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she earned three astrophysics degrees from Harvard University: an AB in 1971, AM in 1972, and PhD in 1974.

[4] Forman has been an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1973 and previously served as the head of the Chandra Calibration Group from 1990 to 2010.

"[7] They received a $500 reward and a certificate "for pioneering work in the study of X-ray emission from early type galaxies.