Margaret J. Geller | |
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 Geller in 1981. | |
| Born | Margaret Joan Geller December 8, 1947[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley (B.A., 1970) Princeton University (Ph.D., 1975) |
| 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| 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 |
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.
- ^ a b "Margaret Geller". Array of Contemporary American Physicists. 2006. Archived from the original on 16 January 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2012.