John Carlstrom

John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago.[1]

He graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1981, and from the University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in 1988.

Carlstrom specializes in measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background, and has led several experiments including the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array, and the South Pole Telescope.

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References

  1. ↑ http://astro.uchicago.edu/people/john-e-carlstrom.shtml
  2. ↑ http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/980611/carlstrom.shtml
  3. ↑ http://www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/magellanic
  4. ↑ http://gruber.yale.edu/cosmology/press/2015-gruber-cosmology-press-release

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