Jane Rigby | |
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Born | Jane Rebecca Rigby |
Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University University of Arizona |
Awards | Nature's 10 (2022) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Goddard Space Flight Center Carnegie Observatories |
Thesis | The properties of weak MgII absorption systems (2000) |
Jane Rebecca Rigby is an American astrophysicist who works at the Goddard Space Flight Center and is Senior Project Scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope. She was selected one of Nature's 10 Ones to Watch in 2021 and Shape 2022. In 2024 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.[1]