Andrea M. Ghez

1965 -

Country of citizenship: United States of America

Native language: English

Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Educated at: California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Occupation: astronomer, university teacher, mathematician, scientist

Award received: MacArthur Fellows Program, Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy, Bakerian Lecture, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, Sackler Prize for Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Sven Berggren prize, Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy

Official website: www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez

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Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In 2020, she became the fourth woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing one half of the prize with Reinhard Genzel (the other half being awarded to Roger Penrose). The Nobel Prize was awarded to Ghez and Genzel for their discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way's Galactic Center. Source: Wikipedia (en)