Gary Hinshaw
Gary F. Hinshaw (* in San Rafael , California ) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist who was involved in the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), whose observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provided essential new insights for cosmology .
Hinshaw studied physics at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1982 and received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1987 . In 1987 he was assistant professor at Oberlin College and from 1990 he was an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA . In 2011 he became a professor at the University of British Columbia . He was involved in COBE and WMAP, both satellite missions examined the CMB. At WMAP, he is in charge of data analysis and the Legacy Archive (LAMBDA), which makes data from NASA's CMB missions available to other scientists.
For 2018 he received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Charles L. Bennett , Norman Jarosik , Lyman Page Jr., David Spergel and the WMAP team . Hinshaw received the Goddard's Space Science Achievement Award.
In addition to the US, he is also a Canadian citizen.
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| SURNAME | Hinshaw, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hinshaw, Gary F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Rafael , California , United States |