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Virginia Louise Trimble

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American astronomer

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Virginia Louise Trimble is an American astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy. She has published more than 600 works in astrophysics, and dozens of other works in the history of other sciences.

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2024Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics
2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2010honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
2010George Van Biesbroeck Prize
1986NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Virginia Louise Trimble is an American astronomer specializing in the structure and evolution of stars and galaxies, and the history of astronomy. She has published more than 600 works in astrophysics, and dozens of other works in the history of other sciences. She is known for an annual review of astronomy and astrophysics research that was published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and often gives summary reviews at astrophysical conferences. In 2018, she was elected a Patron of the American Astronomical Society, for her many years of intellectual, organizational, and financial contributions to the society.

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United States
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Born 1943 · age 82
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