Ellen Gould Zweibel
Ellen Gould Zweibel (born December 20, 1952 in New York City ) is an American plasma physicist and astrophysicist.
Zweibel graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1973 and received his doctorate in physics from Princeton University in 1977 . In 1977/78 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study and then in the Solar Physics group of the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She was also a professor at the University of Colorado from 1980 to 2003 . She is Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (William L. Kraushaar Professor of Astronomy and Physics). Zweibel is a founding member and former director of the Center of Magnetic Self-Organization of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE).
In 1991 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
In 2016 she received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics for outstanding results on the energetics, stability and dynamics of astrophysical plasmas, including those associated with stars and galaxies, and for her leading role in the connection of plasma physics with astrophysical phenomena . She investigates astrophysical phenomena and plasmas on a wide variety of levels (from the sun and stars to evolution, structure and formation of galaxies to galaxy clusters).
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- ↑ Date of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ For seminal research on the energetics, stability, and dynamics of astrophysical plasmas, including those related to stars and galaxies, and for leadership in linking plasma and other astrophysical phenomena , appreciation
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| SURNAME | Zweibel, Ellen Gould |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |