Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Nicholas B. Suntzeff (2009)

Nicholas Boris Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952 in Berkeley , USA) is an American physicist who specializes in cosmology , supernovae , star populations and astronomical instruments.

Suntzeff went to Redwood High School. He received a BS with Honors in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Lick Observatory . After postdoctoral stays at the University of Washington and the observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Mount Wilson and Las Campanas , he held various positions at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory from 1986 to 2006 . He has been a professor at Texas A&M University since 2006, where he is chairman of the astronomy department of the Department of Physics & Astronomy and has been a University Distinguished Professor since 2013 .

Suntzeff co -founded the High-Z Supernova Search Team at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in 1994 , one of the teams that discovered the accelerated expansion of the universe in 1998 , a discovery named Breakthrough of the Year by Science magazine and for Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess from the team received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics .

Awards

• 1974 Phi Beta Kappa , Beta Chapter, Stanford University
• 1983 Robert J. Trumpler Award for the outstanding doctoral thesis in astronomy in North America
• 1983 Carnegie Fellowship , Mount Wilson Observatory
• 1992 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) Science Award and 1998 together with the CTIO Supernova Team
• since 2006 Mitchell / Heep / Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Observational Astronomy, Texas A&M University
• 2007 Gruber Prize for Cosmology for the High-z Supernova Search Team
• 2013 George HW Bush Achievement Award from Texas A&M University
• 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the High-z Supernova Search Team
• 2017 Fellow of the American Physical Society

Web links

• Homepage. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University(English). 
• Nicholas B. Suntzeff, directory page at the IAU. IAU, December 2017. 
• N. Suntzeff: Science, Public Policy, & the End of the Universe. In: Jefferson Science Lecture Series. US State Department (archive), 2011 (English). 
• ESSENCE Supernova Project. (No longer available online.) Noao.edu, 2007, archived from the original on September 27, 2011 . 
• High-Z Supernova Team's web page. 2007. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NB Suntzeff: Biographical Sketch. (PDF) July 2016, accessed on October 19, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Adam G. Riess, Alexei V. Filippenko, Peter Challis, Alejandro Clocchiattia, Alan Diercks, Peter M. Garnavich, Ron L. Gilliland, Craig J. Hogan, Saurabh Jha, Robert P. Kirshner, B. Leibundgut, MM Phillips, David Reiss, Brian P. Schmidt, Robert A. Schommer, R. Chris Smith, J. Spyromilio, Christopher Stubbs, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, John Tonry: Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant . In: Astron. J. Band 116 , 1998, pp. 1009-1038 , doi : 10.1086 / 300499 , arxiv : astro-ph / 9805201 .
3. ↑ James Shine: Cosmic Motion Revealed . In: Science . tape 282 , no. 5397 , December 18, 1998, p. 2156-2157 , doi : 10.1126 / science.282.5397.2156a .
4. ↑ AURA Science Awards. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 29, 2003 . 
5. ↑ PPO - Bush Excellence Awards for Faculty .
6. ↑ 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Retrieved October 19, 2018 . 
7. ^ Fellowship Directory. APS, accessed October 19, 2018 .