Megan Donahue

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Megan Elizabeth Donahue (born December 5, 1962 ) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist .

Life

Megan Donahue grew up on a farm near inland in the state of Nebraska . She attended St. Cecilia Catholic High School in Hastings, Nebraska. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acquired Donahue in 1985 her Bachelor of Arts in the discipline physics. She was awarded a PhD in astrophysics by the University of Colorado in 1990 . In her doctoral thesis she dealt with theory and optical observations of gas in the intergalactic medium and between galaxy clusters . After completing her doctorate, she worked at the observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena from 1990 to 1993. There she researched optical and X-ray observations. From 1993 to 2003 she worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland in various functions, including as an astronomer on the preparation of the James Webb Space Telescope . She then moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University as an Associate Professor . Donahue has held a full professorship there since 2008. Her research focuses on galaxies , active galactic nuclei , dark matter and hot gas in galaxy clusters. She would like to gain more information about the content of the universe and about the formation and development of galaxies.

As President of the American Astronomical Society , Donahue expressed her solidarity with the cause of Black Lives Matter and referred to the society's next strategic plan, which will particularly focus on diversity, justice and inclusion.

Awards

In 1993, Donahue received the Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for her dissertation. In 2011 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

In 2017 Megan Donahue was elected President of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

Fonts

  • with Nicholas Schneider, Jeffrey Bennett and Mark Voit: The Cosmic Perspective. 7th edition. Addison-Wesley, 2013, ISBN 978-0-321-83955-8 .

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literature

  • Megan Donahue, Jeffrey O. Bennett, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit: Astronomy - The Cosmic Perspective. 5th edition. Pearson Germany, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8273-7360-1 , p. Xxxi.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Megan Donahue: AAS President Calls on All Members to Support Black Americans Now in Posts - American Astronomical Society, July 2, 2020
  2. ↑ MSU's Megan Donahue elected American Astronomical Society president in MSU today, February 21, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Donahue, Megan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Donahue, Megan Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer and astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1962