Charles C. Steidel
Encyclopedia
Charles C. Steidel is an American astronomer
, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology
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He graduated from Princeton University
with an A. B., in Astrophysical Sciences, and from California Institute of Technology
with a Ph. D., in Astronomy, in 1990.
On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
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He graduated from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
with an A. B., in Astrophysical Sciences, and from California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
with a Ph. D., in Astronomy, in 1990.
On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.
Awards
- 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize from The Peter and Patricia Gruber FoundationPeter and Patricia Gruber FoundationThe Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation is a U. S. philanthropic foundation established by Peter and Patricia Gruber and based in the U.S. Virgin Islands with offices in New York City.The foundation has two major activities...
in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
- 2002 MacArthur Fellows ProgramMacArthur Fellows ProgramThe MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T...
Works
- "The Structure and Kinematics of the Circum-Galactic Medium from Far-UV Spectra of z~2-3 Galaxies", Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Authors: C. C. Steidel, D. K. Erb, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, N. A. Reddy, M. Bogosavljević, G. C. Rudie, O. Rakic
External links
- "Charles C. Steidel", Scientific Commons
- "Steidel, Charles C.", NASA Technical Reports