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Margaret Geller

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Margaret Geller

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Also known as Margaret Joan Geller, Margaret J. Geller

American astronomer

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Works
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Top works

  • The dynamics and evolution of clusters of galaxies
  • Observations and theoretical studies of rich clusters with multiple subcondensations

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Key facts

Born
Margaret Joan Geller , ( 1947-12-08 ) December 8, 1947 (age 78) , Ithaca, New York
Education
UC Berkeley (B.A., 1970) , Princeton University (M.A., 1972) , Princeton University (Ph.D., 1974)
Awards
Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1989) , MacArthur Fellowship (1990) , Klopsteg Memorial Award (1996) , Magellanic Premium (2008) , James Craig Watson Medal (2010) , Russell Lectureship (2010) , Lilienfeld Prize (2013) , Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2014)
Fields
Astrophysics: Galaxies and Cosmology
Institutions
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Thesis
Bright Galaxies in Rich Clusters: A Statistical Model for Magnitude Distributions. (1974)
Doctoral advisor
Jim Peebles
Doctoral students
Timothy Beers , Marc Postman

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Encyclopedic overview

Margaret J. Geller (born December 8, 1947) is an American astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Her work has included pioneering maps of the nearby universe, studies of the relationship between galaxies and their environment, and the development and application of methods for measuring the distribution of matter in the universe.

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