Virginia Trimble

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Virginia Louise Trimble (* 1943 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American astronomer .

Life

Trimble is the daughter of Trimble chemist Lyne Starling. She attended Hollywood High School and studied physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she earned her bachelor's degree in astronomy in 1964 . In 1965 she received her Masters degree from the California Institute of Technology , where she received her PhD in 1968. She spent two years as a post-doc at the University of Cambridge , where she earned a master's degree. In 1971 she became professor of astronomy at the University of California, Irvine . At the same time, she was for several years (for half a year, July to December) since her marriage in 1973 with the pioneer of experimental gravitational wave research , Joseph Weber , visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College Park , where Weber was professor until his death in 2000 was.

Trimble worked in different areas of astrophysics and astronomy. The subject of her early work was the movement of the filaments of the Crab Nebula and its distance determination. She also deals with the history of astronomy. She authored an annual review article on astrophysics in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . Trimble has published over 500 scientific papers (2009). She also published some papers on archeoastronomy and Egyptology . In the USA she is a sought-after lecturer on topics related to astronomy.

She was vice president of the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society . In 2003 she was chair of the astrophysics section of the IUPAP . In 2010 she received the George Van Biesbroeck Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Astronomy. From 1972 to 1976 she was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1976 she was an Outstanding Young Scientist at the Maryland Academy of Sciences . In 1986 she received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing . In 1988 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

  • Visit to a small universe . American Institute of Physics, 1992, 2007, ISBN 0-88318-792-2
  • with Steven Kawaler, Carl J. Hansen: Stellar Interiors - Physical principles, structure and evolution . Springer, 2nd edition 2004
  • with Thomas Williams (Ed.): Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomy . Springer 2009
  • Origin and abundances of the chemical elements . Rev.Mod.Phys. Vol. 47, 1975, pp. 877-976
  • The Origin and Abundance of the Chemical Elements Revisited , Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, Vol. 3, 1991, p. 1
  • Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe (A Deconstruction) . American Journal of Physics, Vol. 70, 2003, pp. 1175–83 (Klopsteg Lecture)
  • with A. Reisenegger (Ed.): Clusters, lensing and the future of the universe . Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Vol. 88, 1996

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personal data
SURNAME Trimble, Virginia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trimble, Virginia Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California