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Katherine Freese

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American astrophysicist

United StatesScientistsBorn 1957 · age 69
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Katherine Freese is a theoretical astrophysicist. She is currently a professor and Director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics.

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... On my father’s side, I come from a family of artists and architects. My grandfather was a Bauhaus architect in Germany and my grandmother was a painter.

Interview of Katherine Freese by David Zierler on April 23, 2021, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College

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s and massive s in the mass range 2-20 have been proposed as candidates to provide the in the halo of our galaxy.

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What is the Universe made of?" The question is one of the deepest unanswered mysteries in all of human existence.

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2019Lilienfeld Prize
2009Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Katherine Freese is a theoretical astrophysicist. She is currently a professor and Director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics. She is known for her work in theoretical cosmology at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics.

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United States
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Scientist
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Born 1957 · age 69
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