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Tatiana L. Erukhimova (Татьяна Ерухимова) is a Russian-born American physicist. As a professor and The Marshall L’ 69 and Ralph F. Shilling ’68 Endowed Chair in the Department of Physics & Astronomy [1] at Texas A&M University, Erukhimova was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for developing and disseminating innovative physics education programs for college ...
Tyson was a lecturer in astronomy at the University of Maryland from 1986 to 1987 [24] and in 1988, he was accepted into the astronomy graduate program at Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Philosophy degree in astrophysics in 1989, and a PhD degree in astrophysics in 1991 [25] under the supervision of Professor R. Michael Rich.
Robert C. Duncan (Jr.) (born September 2, 1955) is an American astrophysicist now retired from the University of Texas at Austin. Duncan was born in Pensacola, Florida, in 1955. He grew up in Houston and Boston, where his father played a key role in NASA's Apollo Project. [1]
Deirdre Marie Shoemaker (born 1971) [1] is an American astrophysicist whose research studies the mergers of binary black holes through both simulation and observation. [2] She is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Center for Gravitational Physics and is affiliated with the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.
Richard Alfred Matzner is an American physicist, working mostly in the field of general relativity and cosmology, including numerical relativity, kinetic theory, black hole physics, and gravitational radiation. [1] He is Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin where he directed the Center for Relativity. [2]
She has said that her St. Stephen's Episcopal School's high school physics teacher, Frank Mikan, encouraged her love of space science. [12] In 2016, Nance received a dual Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in physics and astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. [13]
Katherine Freese (born 8 February 1957 [1]) is a theoretical astrophysicist.She is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics.
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.