Wendy Freedman
Canadian-American astronomer · Canada · Scientists · Born 1957 · age 69
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Something wrong?Wendy Laurel Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile.
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Wendy Laurel Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her principal research interests are in observational cosmology, focusing on measuring both the current and past expansion rates of the universe, and on understanding if there is missing physics in the standard cosmological model.
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Sandra FaberBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Allan SandageBoth received Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Geoffrey BurbidgeBoth received Petrie Prize Lecture
Maarten SchmidtBoth received Petrie Prize Lecture
Rashid SunyaevBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Both received Dannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.