Michael J. Kurtz is an astrophysicist at Harvard University, He has held the title of Astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian since 1983, and the additional post of Computer Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1984.
He is especially known both for his research into the distribution of galaxies, and for his creation of the Astrophysics Data System.
Kurtz received a BA in Physics from San Francisco State University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1982.
From 1984 to 1992 he was Director of the Image Processing Laboratory.
His most cited papers in astronomy are: His most cited publications in bibliometrics/scientometrics are