Robert Kirshner Sources

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~rkirshner/kirshner_bio.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/the-universe-dark-energy-and-us.html?_r=0

Robert Kirshner Biography

Thomas Pring

DE Astronomy, 2

Mr. Percival

5/20/13

Robert P. Kirshner

            Robert Kirshner is the college professor of Astronomy at Harvard College, in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He began as a Harvard graduate in 1970, then moved on to receive his Ph.D. in Astronomy at California Technical Institute. His post-doctorate was earned at the University of Michigan, where he worked for 9 years at the Kitt Peak Naitonal Observatory. He then returned to Harvard to serve as the Chairman of the Astronomy Department from 1990-7. Both the master of a fraternity (Quincy House), he also was the head of the Optical and Infared Division of the CfA (Center for Astrophysics) from 1997-2003.

            Mr. Kirshner is the proud author of well over 200 research papers, all on subjects he has devoted much of his studies to. These subjects range from the discovery of Dark Energy, to Supernovae, and the Large-scale Structure of the Cosmos. He has even published papers on the subject of using Supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe. He has written books that are used as core curriculum text books in Harvard’s Undergraduate class: Science A-35. One of these books is “The Energetic Universe”.

            His book “The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos” has been awarded the AAP Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Physics and Astronomy, and was a finalist in 2003 for the Aventis Prize. This book has been translated into 4+ different languages, further emphasizing its impact on the scientific world, showing its importance worldwide.