Wendy Freedman
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Wendy L. Freedman (born July 17, 1957 in Toronto , Canada ) is a Canadian astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science . She works on observational cosmology , galaxy evolution and the evolution of star populations. For more than a decade she worked on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project to determine the Hubble constant . For this work, Freedman received the Gruber Prize for Cosmology together with Robert Kennicutt and Jeremy Mold in 2009 . In 2015 Freedman gave the Petrie Prize Lecture and in 2016 she was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics .
Wendy Freedman studied astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1979 and a master's degree in 1980 and received her doctorate there in 1984. As a post-graduate student, she was at Carnegie Observatory in Pasadena, where she became a faculty member in 1987. In 2003 she became Crawford H. Greenwalt director of the Pasadena Observatory. In 2014 she became a University Professor at the University of Chicago .
She has also chaired the Giant Magellan Telescope project management board since it began in 2003 .
She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society .
In 2007 the asteroid (107638) Wendyfreedman was named after her.
Fonts
- The Expansion Rate and Size of the Universum, Scientific American, November 1992
Awards
- 2002 Magellanic Premium
Web links
- Freedman's homepage
- Short CV Freedman
- The big Gehubble around the Big Bang
- Universe a little younger than previously thought
Individual evidence
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 58597
- ^ The Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society , website of the APS . Retrieved October 29, 2019.
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| SURNAME | Freedman, Wendy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Freedman, Wendy L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th July 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |