1. Robert P Kirshner was born on August 15,1949 and is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University.
14 Facts About Robert Kirshner
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Robert Kirshner then worked as a postdoc at the Kitt Peak National Observatory, before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he rose to become Professor and Chairman of the Astronomy Department and helped to build the 2.4 meter Hiltner Telescope.
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Robert Kirshner helped Harvard join the Magellan Observatory in Chile and the Giant Magellan Telescope project.
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At the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Robert Kirshner is an observer on the Thirty Meter International Observatory board of directors.
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Robert Kirshner led work on SN 1987A, the brightest supernova since Kepler's in 1604, using the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite in 1987 and the Hubble Space Telescope after its launch in 1990.
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Robert Kirshner is a co-author of 392 refereed articles in major astronomical journals that deal principally with supernova explosions and the application of supernovae to cosmology.
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Robert Kirshner's work has been cited over 57,000 times, and his h-index is 108.
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Robert Kirshner was a member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team that used observations of distant supernovae to discover the accelerating universe.
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Robert Kirshner has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1998, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992 and the American Philosophical Society since 2005.
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Robert Kirshner is a popular writer and speaker both in the United States and internationally, and is represented by Jodi Soloman Speakers.
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Robert Kirshner has been frequently interviewed by both mainstream journalists and the science press and is often quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Nature, and Science magazine.
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Robert Kirshner was a panelist for the 2000 and 2010 Decadal Reviews of Astronomy.
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Robert Kirshner is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and an Inaugural Fellow of the American Astronomical Society.
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In 1999, Robert Kirshner married the novelist and filmmaker Jayne Loader.