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Since 1985 he has been a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a founding member and Associate Director of the UCLA Galactic Center Group along with Eric Becklin and Andrea Ghez. [1]
Saltzberg earned a bachelor's degree in physics in 1989 from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1994. From 1995 to 1997, he worked at CERN in Switzerland. Saltzberg served as the chair of the UCLA physics and astronomy department from 2018 to 2022.
Benjamin Michael Zuckerman (born August 16, 1943) is an astrophysicist and an emeritus professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. [1] His recent work focus primarily on formation and evolution of planetary systems around various types of stars .
Wright received his ABscl (Physics in 1969) and PhD (Astronomy in 1976) degrees in high-altitude rocket measurement of cosmic microwave background radiation from Harvard University, where he was a junior fellow. After teaching as a tenured associate professor in the MIT Physics Department for a while, Wright has been a professor at UCLA since ...
A “homeless” UCLA lecturer who railed against the university, saying his $70,000 paycheck was too low to live in Los Angeles, claims he was placed on leave because of his remarks toward the ...
Michael S. Turner (born July 29, 1949) [1] is an American theoretical cosmologist who coined the term dark energy in 1998. [2] He is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Chicago, [3] having previously served as the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, [4] and as the assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences ...
As of 2024, he remains affiliated with UCLA as a researcher emeritus/adjunct professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics. Rich is known for his work on the Galactic bulge , including the first measurement of the distribution of stellar abundances [ 2 ] and the first map of the bulge stellar kinematics . [ 3 ]
James Benjamin Rosenzweig is a experimental plasma physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [1] In the field of plasma wakefield acceleration, he is regarded as the father of the non-linear "blowout" interaction regime, where a laser beam, when fired into a plasma at intense levels, expels electrons from the plasma and creates a spherical ...