Andrea M. Ghez
Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Ghez in April 2019 | |
| Born | Andrea Mia Ghez June 16, 1965 New York City, U.S. |
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| Known for | Discovery of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center Adaptive optics |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2008) Crafoord Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2020) |
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| 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 |
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). 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.
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