Neta Bahcall

Neta Bahcall
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	Princeton University (1971-1983,1989-present) Space Telescope Science Institute (1983-1989) California Institute of Technology (1970-1971)
Known for	Galaxy clusters Dark matter

Princeton University (1971-1983,1989-present) Space Telescope Science Institute (1983-1989)

Neta A. Bahcall (born 1942) is an astrophysicist and cosmologist specializing in dark matter, the structure of the universe, quasars, and the formation of galaxies. She is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University.

Bahcall received a B.S. in physics and mathematics at Hebrew University in Israel in 1963. In 1965, she received her Master's in physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. In 1970, Bahcall received her Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel.

From 1970 to 1971, Bahcall was a research fellow in physics at the California Institute of Technology. The same year she received her Ph.D., she began working at Princeton University, where she has been a full-time astrophysics professor since 1989. Between 1971 and 1983, she was a research assistant to a senior research astrophysicist. From 1983 to 1989, she was the chief of the General Observer Support Branch and the head of the Science Program Selection Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where she chose which science programs would have access to the Hubble. She was also the director of the Council on Science and Technology of Princeton from 2000 to 2008.

Through the use of the Hubble Space Telescope she has been able to map the location and structure of various galaxies. One of her most important contributions to the field of astrophysics was her calculations of the mass of the universe. She collaborated with her astrophysicist husband, John Bahcall, and together with him and many others authored and coauthored hundreds of papers.

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