Sheperd S. Doeleman | |
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Born | Sheperd Nacheman 1967 |
Awards | Bruno Rossi Prize (2020) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2020) Henry Draper Medal (2021) Prix Georges Lemaître (2023)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian |
Thesis | Imaging Active Galactic Nuclei with 3mm-VLBI (1995) |
Doctoral advisors | Alan E.E. Rogers and Bernard F. Burke |
Sheperd "Shep" S. Doeleman (born 1967) is an American astrophysicist. His research focuses on super massive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon. He is a senior research fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and the Founding Director[2] of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project.[3] He led the international team of researchers that produced the first directly observed image of a black hole.[4][5]
Doeleman was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.[6]