Jacqueline Henrie͏̈tte van Gorkom (born 30 March 1947)[1] is a Dutch radio astronomer and Rutherfurd Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University.
[2][3][4][5] Van Gorkom is known for her contributions to the field of galaxy evolution, particularly through observations of neutral hydrogen gas.
[1] She received her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Groningen Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in 1980.
[6][7][8] She worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico for 8 years as a research scientist before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1988.
CHILES will study the morphology and kinematics of gas in galaxies between redshift z=0 and z=0.45 and serve as a pathfinder experiment for the Square Kilometre Array.