Sheperd S. Doeleman
Sheperd S. Doeleman | |
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| Born | Sheperd Nacheman 1967 (age 58–59) |
| Awards | Bruno Rossi Prize (2020) Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2020) Henry Draper Medal (2021) Prix Georges Lemaître (2023) |
| 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 imaging supermassive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon. He is a senior research fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Founding Director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. He led the international team of researchers that produced the first directly observed image of a black hole.
Doeleman was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.