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Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Nicholas Suntzeff
Houston, Texas 2009
Born (1952-11-22) November 22, 1952 (age 72)
Alma materStanford University
University of California at Santa Cruz
Lick Observatory
Known forObservational cosmology based on supernovae
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Cosmology
InstitutionsTexas A&M University,
United States Department of State
Doctoral advisorRobert Kraft

Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American astronomer and cosmologist. He is a university distinguished professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational 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.


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