John Carlstrom
John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago.[1]
He graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1981, and from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 1988.
Carlstrom specializes in measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background, and has led several experiments including the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array, and the South Pole Telescope.
Awards
- 1998 MacArthur Fellows Program[2]
- 2004 Magellanic Gold Medal[3]
- 2006 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
- 2015 Gruber Prize in Cosmology[4]
gollark: Oh, fixed.
gollark: ... seriously? I have exactly the same issue?
gollark: Oh. Oh, right.
gollark: Anyway, it seems that due to a minor issue of some sort in my code somewhere, this always produces zero. What joy.
gollark: Belgium doesn't *actually* exist.
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-09. Retrieved 2010-04-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/980611/carlstrom.shtml
- http://www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/magellanic
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-11-22. Retrieved 2015-06-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
- John E. Carlstrom", Scientific Commons
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.