Andrea M. Ghez
Andrea M. Ghez | |
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Ghez in April 2019 | |
| Born | Andrea Mia Ghez June 16, 1965 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Known for | Discovery of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center Adaptive optics |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2008) Crafoord Prize (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | The Multiplicity of T Tauri Stars in the Star Forming Regions Taurus-Auriga and Ophiuchus-Scorpius: A 2.2μm Speckle Imaging Survey (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerry Neugebauer |
| Website | astro |
Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy". This object is generally recognized to be a black hole.
Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way galaxy. She is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. With Judith Love Cohen, she is the author of the book You Can Be a Woman Astronomer.