Christopher Carilli

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Christopher Luke "Chris" Carilli (* 1960 ) is an American radio astronomer.

Carilli studied physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago (1983/84) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 1989. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Soccoro and the Leiden Observatory. From 1996 he was an astronomer at the NRAO in Soccoro, from 2008 as chief scientist and 2006 to 2008 director of the North American ALMA Science Center in Soccoro. He has also been the part-time John Baldwin Director of Research at Cavendish Astrophysics at Cambridge University since 2013 .

In 1999 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn. In 2005 he received a Max Planck Research Award , where he was recognized as one of the world's leading experts in the field of radio astronomy and for his significant contribution to the development of new radio telescopes.

He is researching the formation of the first stars from interstellar gas and galaxies in the universe.

Fonts (selection)

  • with F. Walter: Cool gas in high redshift galaxies, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 51, 2013, p. 105
  • with X. Fan, B. Keating: Observational constraints on cosmic reionization, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 44, 2006, p. 415
  • with GB Taylor: Cluster magnetic fields, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 40, 2002, p. 319
  • with PD Barthel: Cygnus A, Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews, Volume 7, 1996, p. 1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Christopher Carilli. In: International Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society 2005. p. 3 , accessed on December 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ NRAO Astronomer Wins Max Planck Research Award
personal data
SURNAME Carilli, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carilli, Chris; Carilli, Christopher Luke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radio astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960