Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Nicholas Suntzeff Boris ( born November 22, 1952 in Berkeley, California ) is an American physicist whose areas of expertise are cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations and astronomical instruments.

Suntzeff went to Redwood High School. He received the B. S. with distinction in mathematics from Stanford University in 1974 and the Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Lick Observatory in 1980.

Suntzeff is chairman of the Department of Astronomy of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A & M University.

Awards

  • Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter, Stanford University, 1974
  • Robert J. Trumpler Award for the outstanding Ph.D. in astronomy in North America in 1983
  • Carnegie Fellowship, Mount Wilson Observatory in 1983
  • AURA Science Award, in 1992 and personally with the CTIO supernova team in 1998
  • Mitchell / Heep / Munnerlyn Endowed Chair in Observational Astronomy, Texas A & M University 2006
  • Gruber Prize for Cosmology with the High -z Supernova Search Team 2007
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