Sandra Faber
Sandra Moore Faber ( born December 28, 1944) is an astronomer and astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz ( UCSC ) and works at the Lick Observatory. She discovered along with Robert Earl Jackson in 1976, the Faber -Jackson relation.
In 1972 she received her Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University, having previously achieved a BA with high honors in physics from Swarthmore College in 1966. In 1972, she was Assistant Professor, in 1977 Associate Professor and in 1979 Professor at UCSC. Since 1996, she holds the rank of University Professor at the University of California.
Faber is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1985 ), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989) and was elected to the American Philosophical Society on 29 April 2001.
Faber was leader of the team (known as the Seven Samurai ) that discovered the mass concentration of Great Attractor.
At UCSC she focused her research on the development of structures in the universe and the development and formation of galaxies.