Wendy Freedman
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Wendy Laurel Freedman FRS (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.[2] Her principal research interests are in observational cosmology, focusing on measuring both the current and past expansion rates of the universe, and on characterizing the nature of dark energy.
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Born | (1957-07-17) July 17, 1957 (age 66) Toronto, Canada |
Alma mater | University of Toronto (B.Sc. & Ph.D.) |
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Thesis | The Young Stellar Content of Nearby Resolved Galaxies [1] (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Philipp Paul Kronberg |
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