John Carlstrom
John E. Carlstrom (* 1957 ) is an American astrophysicist .
Carlstrom received his bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1981 and his PhD in 1988 from the University of California, Berkeley . He is a professor at the University of Chicago .
Carlstrom develops observation instruments to study anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background and to discover galaxy clusters with the help of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect . Telescopes are used for this purpose, for example at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station or at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory .
Awards
- 1998 MacArthur Fellowship
- 2000 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2004 Magellanic Premium
- 2006 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
- 2015 Gruber Prize for Cosmology
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ AAAS membership directory. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
- ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Carlstrom, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carlstrom, John E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |