Charles C. Steidel

Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962 in Ithaca, New York) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.[2]

Charles C. Steidel
Born (1962-10-14) October 14, 1962
Alma materPrinceton University;
California Institute of Technology
AwardsGruber Cosmology Prize (2010)
MacArthur Fellows Program (2002)
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1997)[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsastronomy
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology

Life

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.[3] On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.[4]

Awards

  • 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize from The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
  • 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

References

  1. "Charles C. Steidel received the Helen B. Warner Prize 1997 of the American Astronomical Society.", Physics Today, 50: R76, 1997, Bibcode:1997PhT....50R..76., doi:10.1063/1.2806688
  2. http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/
  3. http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/cv_2009.pdf
  4. "Charles C. Steidel Wed to Miss Hoyt", The New York Times, November 8, 1987
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