Kyongae Chang

Kyongae Chang (Korean: 장경애, born September 5, 1946) is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens.

Chang was born in Seoul. She graduated Sungkyunkwan University and worked as a research associate on astrometric binaries with Professors van de Kamp and Heintz at Sproul Observatory from 1969 till 1971. From 1975 until 1980 she worked on a Dr. rer. nat. at Hamburg University, graduating with her work on the Chang-Refsdal lens.^[1] The main result was published in Nature in 1979 immediately after the discovery of the first gravitational lens.^[1][2]

She returned to Korea in 1985 and became a professor at Cheongju University.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Schramm, Jochen (2010). Sterne über Hamburg (in German). Hamburg: Kultur- und Geschichtskontor. ISBN 978-3-9811271-8-8.
2. Chang, K.; Refsdal, S. (December 6, 1979). "Flux variations of QSO 0957+561 A, B and image splitting by stars near the light path". Nature. 282 (5739): 561–564. Bibcode:1979Natur.282..561C. doi:10.1038/282561a0. S2CID 4325497.

External links

• Partial list of publications at ScientificCommons
• Kyongae Chang at the IAU