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Lisa Kewley

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Australian astrophysicist

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Lisa Jennifer Kewley is an Australian astrophysicist and current Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

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2020Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales
2020James Craig Watson Medal
2014Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
2008Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
2006Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
1996Bok Prize

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Lisa Jennifer Kewley is an Australian astrophysicist and current Director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Previously, Kewley was Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3-D and ARC Laureate Fellow at the Australian National University College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, where she was also a professor. Specialising in galaxy evolution, she won the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy in 2005 for her studies of oxygen in galaxies, and the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy in 2008. In 2014 she was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2020 she received the James Craig Watson Medal. In 2021 she was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2022 she became the first female director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.

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Australia
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Scientists
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Scientist
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living
Dates
Born 1974 · age 52
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