Nicholas B. Suntzeff
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1952 –
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Who is Nicholas B. Suntzeff?
Nicholas B. Suntzeff is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program. He is an observational astronomer specializing in cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations, and astronomical instrumentation. With Brian Schmidt he founded the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 to Schmidt and Adam Riess.
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- Born
- Nov 22, 1952
Berkeley - Also known as
- Nicholas Suntzeff
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Stanford University
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Lived in
- College Station
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on July 23, 2013
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