Norman Murray obtained his B.Sc. at Caltech, followed by a Ph.D. at Berkeley. After postdoctoral positions at Queen Mary College London, and then at Caltech, he joined the faculty at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in 1993. Murray works on a broad range of problems in astrophysics, including planetary dynamics, solar oscillations and magnetic fields, black holes and their effects on their host galaxies, as well as planet, star, and galaxy formation. He has made significant contributions to the theory of outflows from supermassive black hole accretion disks (broad absorption line quasars), the theory of stellar feedback on star and galaxy formation, and on photo-evaporative atmospheric loss from planets. He explained why the giant planets in our Solar System are chaotic, and why some hot Jupiters orbit their host stars in highly inclined or even retrograde orbits. He has also worked on the theory of thermal tides on Earth and on exoplanets. Murray was involved in the construction of Bob Leighton's 10 meter sub-millimeter dishes, one of which is currently in use by the COMap collaboration (of which he is a member) as well as the ongoing construction of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope to be installed at the CCAT-prime observatory near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor, in 2025.