Christine Jones Forman

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Christine Jones Forman

Christine Jones Forman (* 3. February 1949 in Minneapolis as Christine Jones ) is an American astrophysicist.

Jones graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1971, a master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in astrophysics in 1974. 1975 to 1978 she was a junior fellow at Harvard. She has been a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1978 . There she is director of the Consortium for Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe .

She is group leader for the calibration of the Chandra X-ray satellite .

In 2009 she received the Marcel Grossmann Award for fundamental contributions to the X-ray astronomy of galaxies and galaxy clusters that followed their formation and evolution and for their use of galaxy clusters to study dark matter and to analyze the effects of supermassive black hole eruptions on interstellar gas . In 1985 she received the Bruno Rossi Prize with her husband William Forman and she received the Bart J. Bok Prize . She has been a co-recipient of NASA Group Achievement Awards on multiple occasions. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

She is Vice President of the American Astronomical Society (2012).

She has been married to astrophysicist William R. Forman (Associate Director of High Energy Astrophysics, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) since 1973 and has three children.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ fundamental contributions to the X-ray studies of galaxies and clusters tracing their formation and evolution and for her role in collaborations using clusters to study dark matter and in analyzing the effects of outbursts from supermassive black holes on the intracluster gas , official laudation
personal data
SURNAME Jones Forman, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Christine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis