Robert Kirshner ( Robert P. Kirshner , born August 15, 1949, Long Branch, NJ) is an American astronomer , cosmologist and supernova researcher. Professor at Harvard University, member of the NAS of the USA and the American Philosophical Society . Winner of the Wolf Prize (2015) [2] .
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Biography
Graduated from magna cum laude Harvard College of Astronomy (1970). He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1975. In 1974-1976, a postdoc at Kitt Peak National Observatory. For nine years he taught at the University of Michigan : since 1976, an assistant professor, since 1979 an associate professor, in 1981-1985 a professor and head of astronomy. In 1985, he moved to the Harvard Department of Astronomy, where from that time until now he is a professor of astronomy, he headed the department of astronomy in 1990-1997, and in 1997-2003 he headed the department of optics and infrared at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . In 2002-2007, he headed one of Harvard colleges - . In 1997-1998, 2006-2007 and 2011-2012. g. with. . He is now Emeritus Professor of Harvard and also (since 2015) is the Chief Program . In 2004-2006 President of the American Astronomical Society . Fello of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His students Brian Schmidt and Adam Riesz were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Sol Perlmutter) "for discovering the accelerated expansion of the universe through the observation of distant supernovae."
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1998), American Philosophical Society (2005), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992).
Author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications in astronomical journals and the book The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Rewards
- Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award (2004)
- Gruber Cosmology Prize (2007, as part of the ) [3]
- Honorary Doctor of the University of Chicago (2010)
- Danny Heinemann Award for Astrophysics at the American Institute of Physics (2011)
- Guggenheim Scholarship (2012)
- James Craig Watson Medal of the United States National Academy of Sciences (2014) [4]
- Fundamental Physics Award (2015, as part of the High-Z Supernova Search Team) [5]
- Wolf Prize in Physics (2015, with James Bjorken )
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- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Robert Kirshner Receives Wolf Prizepz201505 | www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- ↑ Brian Schmidt & the High-z Supernova Search Team | The gruber foundation
- ↑ Robert Kirshner Receives the James Craig Watson Medal of the National Academy of Sciencespz201403 | www.cfa.harvard.edu/
- ↑ Breakthrough Prize - Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates - Adam Riess and the High-z Supernova Search Team