Nicholas B. Suntzeff Scientist

Nicholas B. Suntzeff (Russian: Борис Николаевич Сунцев) (born 1952, San Francisco, CA) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program. He is an observational astronomer specializing in cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations, and astronomical instrumentation. With Brian Schmidt he founded the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 to Schmidt and Adam Riess.

Personal facts

Nicholas B. Suntzeff
Alias (AKA)Boris Nicholaevich Evdokimov
Birth dateNovember 22, 1952
Birth place
Berkeley California , San Francisco
Nationality
United States
Residence
College Station Texas
Education
Stanford University
University of California Santa Cruz
Lick Observatory

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doctoral advisor
Field of study
Astronomy
Cosmology

Topical connections

Alvin LuedeckeMilitary person
Adam RiessScientist
A. E. DouglassScientist
Étienne Léopold TrouvelotScientist
Adam FrankScientist
Øystein ElgarøyScientist

Nicholas B. Suntzeff on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/supernova/HighZ.html
  2. http://csp1.lco.cl/~cspuser1
  3. http://mitchell.tamu.edu/people/nicholas-suntzeff
  4. http://physics.tamu.edu/directory/showpeople.php?name=Nicholas%20B.%20Suntzeff&userid=nsuntzeff
  5. http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/6107
  6. http://www.state.gov/p/io