Glennys Farrar | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Princeton University |
Awards | Distinguished Visiting Research Chair for the Perimeter Institute |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology Rutgers University New York University |
Thesis | The weak radiative decay of the positive sigma-hyperon and the lambda-hyperon (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Sam Treiman |
Doctoral students | Gregory Gabadadze |
Glennys Reynolds Farrar (born 1946) is an American physicist. She is a professor of physics at New York University who specializes in particle physics, cosmology and the study of dark matter.[1][2] She has made several significant contributions to the fields of hadron and dark matter phenomenology, helping to develop the working "Standard Cosmological Model".[3][4][5] Farrar is a figure in developing many modern particle-search techniques, achieving numerous recognitions including as the Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences and Sloan Fellowship. She holds a faculty position at New York University (NYU), where she has been since 1998.