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Miller received her B.A. in physics and astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 and her PhD in physics from Princeton University in 2000. [1] [2] As a postdoctoral scholar, she completed a NASA Hubble Fellowship [3] at the University of Chicago.
Sutter is a cosmologist and community outreach coordinator with the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State University [2] and the chief scientist at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. [4] [5]
Michael S. Turner (born July 29, 1949) [1] is an American theoretical cosmologist who coined the term dark energy in 1998. [2] He is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Chicago, [3] having previously served as the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, [4] and as the assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences ...
NASA is hiring a planetary protection officer with a salary of up to $187K to make sure humans don't contaminate planets, moons, and other objects in space.
University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1979) California Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1984) Known for: Studies of supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, accelerating expansion of the Universe: Spouse: Noelle Filippenko: Children: 4: Awards: Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy Guggenheim Fellowship Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Konstantin Batygin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. [3] His father, Yuri Konstantinovich Batygin, worked as an accelerator physicist in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute until 1994, when he moved along with his wife Galina [4] and their family to WakÅ, Japan, and began working at the particle accelerator facility in RIKEN. [3]
BICEP received a NASA Group Achievement Award in 2010. [17] In 2016 he convinced the Simons Foundation to provide US$38.4m of funding for what later became the Simons Array, [ 18 ] and in 2019 a US$20m grant from the Simons Foundation led to the creation of the Simons Observatory , [ 19 ] followed by an additional US$4.6m in 2021. [ 20 ]
He was also the recipient of the Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2006), the Daniel Chalonge Medal from the International School of Astrophysics (2006), the Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society (2003), the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the US Department of Energy (1995), and the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA (1991).