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.
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