Gordon P. Garmire received his Ph.D. degree from MIT in 1962. He was a member of the MIT faculty through 1968, when he joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, becoming Professor of Physics there in 1972. In 1980, he joined the faculty of the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, becoming Evan Pugh Professor of Astronomy in 1985. His research accomplishments include co-discovery of high energy gamma rays, contributions to the optical identification of Sco X-1, the development of Algebraic Reconstruction and Maximum Entropy methods for two dimensional maps of X-ray sources, the construction of the first diamond-turned X-ray telescope, and the discovery of the first non-pulsating neutron star in a supernova remnant. He was Co-PI on the HEAO-1 A-2 experiment which produced the first satellite-based all-sky soft X-ray survey, and is PI on the AXAF CCD Imaging Spectrometer ( ACIS ) experiment. He has served on the Space Science Advisory Committee of NASA and was the chairman of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the AAS in 1985. In 1978 he received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award.