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Margaret Geller
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American astronomer
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Margaret Joan Geller is an American astronomer, astrophysicist, and university teacher. Born in Ithaca in 1947, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral advisor was Jim Peebles. She has worked at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Cambridge, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Geller’s research focuses on astrophysics, extragalactic astronomy, cosmology, and galaxy formation and evolution. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Astronomical Union. She speaks English.
Her awards include the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, the Karl Schwarzschild Medal, and the James Craig Watson Medal. She is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Macarthur Fellows collection.
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- Works
- 2
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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ithaca
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Jim Peebles
- Field of work
- extragalactic astronomy
- Official website
- www.cfa.harvard.edu/~mjg
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- MargaretGeller1981a.jpg
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- 1947-12-08
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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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