# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-b-suntzeff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:59:21.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nicholas-b-suntzeff"
name: "Nicholas B. Suntzeff"
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description: "Nicholas Boris Suntzeff 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."
tagline: "American astronomer and cosmologist"
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birthDate: "1952-11-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             4.999999999999998
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump