Alexei Filippenko

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Alexei Filippenko (2008)

Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko (born July 25, 1958 in Oakland , California ) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

Filippenko attended high school in Goleta and studied physics from 1979 at the University of California, Santa Barbara . The Ph.D. in astronomy he received in 1984 from the California Institute of Technology . From 1984 to 1986 Filippenko Miller Research Fellows at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed professor of astronomy. His main research interests include supernovae and active galaxies in the optical, ultraviolet and infrared range as well as black holes in X-ray binary star systems and the study of dark matter and dark energy . He can use data from the Keck Telescope , the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra Telescope .

Filippenko is one of the most cited scientists in his field with over 750 specialist publications. He has co-produced five astronomy video courses, The Great Courses, and is co-author of an award-winning textbook in astronomy. He has also appeared in numerous television documentaries including 40 episodes of The Universe .

Filippenko received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize for Astronomy for his research in 1992 , and in 1997 he was awarded the Petrie Prize Lecture . In 2000 he received a Guggenheim grant and in 2007 the Gruber Prize for Cosmology . In 2009 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 2015 he was awarded the Fundamental Physics Prize together with other scientists and teams , and he was also accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . The student body at the University of California, Berkeley voted him nine times "Best Professor" on campus.

His hobbies include tennis, hiking, diving and skiing.

Alexei Filippenko is married and has four children with his wife Noelle, Zoe, Simon, Capri and Orion.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Relationships between active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco 1992, ISBN 0-937707-50-3 .
  • Robotic telescopes in the 1990s. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco 1992, ISBN 0-937707-53-8 .
  • The cosmos. Astronomy in the new millennium. together with Jay M. Pasachoff, Pacific Grove, California / Brooks / Cole London 2003, ISBN 0-534-39549-X .

Movies

  • Understanding the Universe. An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition. ( DVD from The Great Courses series. ) The Teaching Company, 2007.
  • Black Holes Explained. (DVD from The Great Courses series. ) The Teaching Company, 2009.
  • Skywatching: Seeing and Understanding Cosmic Wonders. (DVD from The Great Courses series. ) The Teaching Company, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Alexei Filippenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexei Filippenko (Biography) on astro.berkeley.edu
  2. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Newly elected members, April 2015 (by Class and Section) (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Filippenko, Alexei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filippenko, Alexei Vladimir (full name); Filippenko, Alex (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakland , California