Andrea M. Ghez
Andrea M. Ghez | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Thesis | The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Star Forming Regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiuchus-Scorpius: A 2.2μm Speckle Imaging Survey (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | Gerry Neugebauer |
Website | astro |
Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American
In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half being awarded to Roger Penrose).[1][3] The Nobel Prize was awarded to Ghez and Genzel for their discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way's Galactic Center.[4][5]
Early life
Ghez was born in
Her family moved from New York to Chicago when she was a child, and Ghez attended the
She began college by majoring in mathematics, then changed to physics.
Career
Ghez's research employs high spatial resolution imaging techniques, such as the
In 2004, Ghez was elected to the
Ghez has appeared in many television documentaries produced by networks such as the
Black hole at the Galactic Center (Sgr A*)
By imaging the
In 2020, Ghez shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel, for their discoveries relating to black holes.[4] Ghez and Genzel were awarded one half of the prize for their discovery that a supermassive black hole most likely governs the orbits of stars at the center of the Milky Way.[34] Ghez was the fourth woman to win the physics Nobel since its inception, being preceded by Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963), and Donna Strickland (2018).[3]
Awards
- Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy (1994)[35]
- Packard Fellowship award (1996)[36]
- Sloan Research Fellowship Award[37]
- Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1998)[35]
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society (1999)[38]
- Sackler Prize (2004)[39]
- Gold Shield Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence (2004)[40]
- Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship (2007)
- MacArthur Fellowship (2008)[41]
- Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2012)[42]
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2012)[43]
- Royal Society Bakerian Medal (2015)[44]
- Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Oxford (2019)[45]
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (2019)[27]
- Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (2020)[46]
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)[4]
Selected publications
Articles
- Ghez, Andrea M.; Neugebauer, Gerry; Matthews, K. (1993). "The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Taurus-Auriga & Ophiuchus-Scorpius Star Forming Regions: A 2.2 micron Imaging Survey" (PDF). Astronomical Journal. 106: 2005–2023. S2CID 122568990.
- Ghez, Andrea M.; White, Russel J.; Simon, M. (1997). "High Spatial Resolution Imaging of Pre-Main Sequence Binary Stars: Resolving the Relationship Between Disks and Close Companions". Astrophysical Journal. 490 (1): 353–367. doi:10.1086/304856.
- Ghez, Andrea M.; Klein, B. L.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E.E. (1998). "High Proper Motions in the Vicinity of Sgr A*: Evidence for a Massive Central Black Hole". Astrophysical Journal. 509 (2): 678–686. S2CID 18243528.
- Ghez, A. M.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E. E.; Tanner, A.; Kremenek, T. (2000). "The Accelerations of Stars Orbiting the Milky Way's Central Black Hole". Nature. 407 (6802): 349–351. S2CID 312384.
- Ghez, A. M.; Duchêne, G.; Matthews, K.; Hornstein, S. D.; Tanner, A.; Larkin, J.; Morris, M.; Becklin, E. E.; S. Salim (January 1, 2003). "The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy's Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 586 (2): L127. S2CID 11388341.
- Ghez, A. M.; Salim, S.; Weinberg, N. N.; Lu, J. R.; Do, T.; Dunn, J. K.; Matthews, K.; Morris, M. R.; Yelda, S. (December 20, 2008). "Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits". Astrophysical Journal. 689 (2): 1044–1062. S2CID 18335611.
Books
- Ghez, Andrea Mia; Cohen, Judith Love (2006). You Can Be a Woman Astronomer. Cascade Pass. ISBN 978-1-880599-78-5.[18]
Personal life
Ghez has two sons.[47] Ghez is an active swimmer in the UCLA Masters Swim Club.[48][49]
See also
References
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- ^ Discover Magazine. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
- ^ a b "Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physics". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ^ Overbye, Dennis; Taylor, Derrick Bryson (October 6, 2020). "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes – The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way's center". The New York Times. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
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- ISBN 978-0837909356– via Google Books.
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- ^ Chi spregia il giorno delle piccole cose? mevakshederekh.info
- ^ "Oral history interview with Susanne Ghez". www.aaa.si.edu. January 25, 2011.
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- S2CID 4285760.
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- S2CID 18335611.
- ^ Eckart, Andreas; Schödel, Rainer; et al. (September 2006). "The Galactic Centre: The Flare Activity of SgrA* and High-Resolution Explorations of Dusty Stars" (PDF). The Messenger. 125. European Southern Observatory: 2–5.
- ^ "The Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center". www.astro.ucla.edu. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ^ Boen, Brooke (May 20, 2015). "Supermassive Black Hole Sagittarius A*". NASA. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
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- ^ "UCLA Galactic Center Group / SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS". www.astro.ucla.edu. 1995–2017. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
- ^ "Maria Goeppert Mayer Award". www.aps.org.
- UCLA. Archived from the originalon February 4, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2008.
- ^ "Astronomer Andrea Ghez awarded Gold Shield prize". University of California, Santa Cruz. Archived from the original on July 9, 2008. Retrieved March 20, 2008.
- UCLA. Archivedfrom the original on September 24, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2008.
- ^ "The Crafoord Prize in Mathematics 2012 and The Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2012". Crafoord Prize. Archived from the original on December 27, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
- ^ "Newsroom". Archived from the original on October 9, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "Andrea Ghez to receive Royal Society's Bakerian Medal".
- ^ "Honorary degree recipients for 2019 announced". The University of Oxford. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
- ^ Lewis, Wayne (March 24, 2021). "A Search for Knowledge That Led Andrea Ghez to a Nobel Prize". UCLA. Archived from the original on March 24, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ "Poster Project, Biographies". www.math.sunysb.edu.
- ^ "UCLA Masters Swimmer Andrea Ghez Wins Nobel Prize in Physics". SwimSwam. October 6, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
External links
- UCLA Faculty Research Lecture: Unveiling a Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
- Finkbeiner, Ann (March 20, 2013), "As an early adopter of astronomical technology, Andrea Ghez is revealing secrets about the giant black hole at the Galaxy's centre", PMID 23518544
- Andrea Ghez at TED