Nicholas Suntzeff | |
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 Houston, Texas 2009 | |
| Born | November 22, 1952 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Alma mater | Stanford University University of California at Santa Cruz Lick Observatory |
| Known for | Observational cosmology based on supernovae |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy Cosmology |
| Institutions | Texas A&M University, United States Department of State |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Kraft |
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Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American astronomer and cosmologist. He is a university distinguished professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational 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.