Ann Hornschemeier is an American astronomer specializing in X-ray emission from X-ray binary populations. She is the Chief Scientist for the Physics of the Cosmos program at NASA.
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Career and research
She chairs the NuSTAR Starburst and Local Group science working group, which observes seven nearby galaxies. At NASA, Hornschemeier researches high energy astrophysics and cosmology. She is involved in future research missions, including the ESA Athena mission due to launch in 2028. Hornschemeier is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.
Awards and honors
In 2007, she won the American Astronomical Society's Annie Jump Cannon Award, which recognizes women for their outstanding research in astronomy, for her X-ray investigations of distant galaxies.
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