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[116] [117] Neil met his wife in a physics class at the University of Texas at Austin. They married in 1988 and named their first child Miranda after the smallest of Uranus' five major moons. [118] Tyson is a wine enthusiast whose collection was featured in the May 2000 issue of the Wine Spectator and the Spring 2005 issue of The World of Fine ...
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]
Paul Robert Shapiro is an American astrophysicist.. Shapiro earned a bachelor's degree and doctorate from Harvard University, in 1974 and 1978, respectively, [1] and began teaching at the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, after completing postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study. [2]
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]
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.
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]
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.
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.