Nicholas B. Suntzeff
| Nicholas Suntzeff | |
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Houston, Texas 2009
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| Born |
November 22, 1952 San Francisco, CA |
| Residence | College Station, Texas |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Astronomy Cosmology |
| Institutions |
Texas A&M University, United States Department of State |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University University of California at Santa Cruz Lick Observatory |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Kraft |
| Known for | Observational cosmology based on supernovae |
Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program. He is an observational astronomer specializing in cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations, and astronomical instrumentation. With Brian Schmidt he founded the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 to Schmidt and Adam Riess.
Suntzeff graduated from Neil Cummins Elementary School in Corte Madera, California and Redwood High School in Larkspur, California. He received his B.S. with distinction in mathematics from Stanford University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in astronomy & astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Lick Observatory in 1980. While undergraduates at Stanford University, Suntzeff and engineering student Michael Kast built the Stanford Student Observatory.
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