Sandra M. Faber
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Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an astronomer and astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and works at the Lick Observatory . Together with Robert Earl Jackson, she discovered the Faber-Jackson relation in 1976 .
Life
In 1972 she received her Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University , having previously earned her BA in Physics from Swarthmore College in 1966 with honors . In 1972 she became Assistant Professor, 1977 Associate Professor and 1979 Professor at UCSC. Since 1996 she has been a University Professor at the University of California.
Faber is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007) and was elected to the American Philosophical Society on April 29, 2001 .
Faber was the leader of the team (known as the Seven Samurai ) that discovered the mass concentration Great Attractor .
At UCSC, she focuses her research on the development of structures in the universe and the development and formation of galaxies.
Due to the number of her citations, Clarivate Analytics has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ) since 2018 .
Honors
- 1977 Sloan Research Fellow
- 1978 Bart J. Bok Prize
- 1985 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- 1986 Honorary Doctorate from Swarthmore College
- 1993 NASA Group Achievement Award (Wide Field / Planetary Camera Team)
- 1997 Honorary Doctorate from Williams College
- 2006 Centennial Medal of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
- 2011 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- 2011 National Medal of Science
- 2012 Bruce Medal
- 2012 Karl Schwarzschild Medal
- 2014 namesake for the asteroid (283277) Faber
- 2017 Gruber Prize for Cosmology
- 2018 Magellanic Premium
- 2020 Royal Astronomical Society gold medal
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Clarivate Analytics Reveals Annual Forecast of Future Nobel Prize Recipients. In: clarivate.com. Clarivate Analytics, September 20, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 .
- ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Faber, Sandra M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faber, Sandra Moore (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer, professor of astronomy and astrophysics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |