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Name
  
Charles Steidel

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship

Fields
  
Astronomy

Education
  
Princeton University

Role
  
Astronomer


Charles C. Steidel httpswwwmacfoundorgmediafellowsprofilepho

Born
  
October 14, 1962 Ithaca, New York (
1962-10-14
)

Institutions
  
California Institute of Technology

Alma mater
  
Princeton University; California Institute of Technology

Notable awards
  
Gruber Cosmology Prize (2010) MacArthur Fellows Program (2002) Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1997)

Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962 in Ithaca, New York) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.

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Life

He graduated from Princeton University with an A. B., in Astrophysical Sciences, and from California Institute of Technology with a Ph. D., in Astronomy, in 1990. On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.

Awards

  • 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize from The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
  • 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program

    • Works

  • "The Structure and Kinematics of the Circum-Galactic Medium from Far-UV Spectra of z~2-3 Galaxies", Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Authors: C. C. Steidel, D. K. Erb, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, N. A. Reddy, M. Bogosavljević, G. C. Rudie, O. Rakic

    • References

    Charles C. Steidel Wikipedia
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