Rebecca Oppenheimer

Rebecca Oppenheimer
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Alma mater
Known forAstrophysics
Cosmology
Activism
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics, chemistry, materials science
InstitutionsAmerican Museum of Natural History
Columbia University
Thesis Brown Dwarf Companions of Nearby Stars  (1999)
Doctoral advisorS. R. Kulkarni
Gibor Basri (postdoc)

Rebecca Oppenheimer is an American astrophysicist and one of four curator/professors in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Oppenheimer is a comparative exoplanetary scientist. She investigates planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. Her optics laboratory is the birthplace of a number of new astronomical instruments designed to tackle the problem of directly seeing and taking spectra of nearby solar systems with exoplanets and studying their composition, with the ultimate goal of finding life outside the solar system.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Rebecca Oppenheimer". the Guardian. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  2. ^ "Profile: Rebecca Oppenheimer | Astrophysics". research.amnh.org. Retrieved 2020-01-29.