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Marc Kamionkowski, considered one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists for his work in large-scale structures and the early history of the universe, will join the faculty in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences on July 1. An endowed professor at California Institute of Technology, Kamionkowski has spent much of his career researching astrophysics, cosmology and elementary particle theory.
June 27, 2011 Tags: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society, astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, Daniel Reich, galaxy formation, gravitational lensing, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Marc Kamionkowski, particle dark matter, phase transitions in the early universe, stellar astrophysics, the epoch of reionization, The Johns Hopkins University, The Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics
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Nadia L. Zakamska of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University has received a Sloan Research Fellowship to continue her research, which uses Earth and space-based telescopes and large data sets to answer important questions about the universe and its origins. Administered by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowship recognizes early-career scientists and scholars with two-year $50,000 grants aimed at helping them establish their laboratories and advance their research. Zakamska, 31, was one of 118 young scientists or economists to receive the awards this year, in recognition of their potential to contribute to academic advancement. Since the Sloan Foundation began awarding fellowships in 1955, 38 have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers.
February 15, 2011 Tags: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Daniel Reich, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, John N. Bahcall fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Nadia L. Zakamska, NASA Spitzer Fellowship, Princeton University, Sloan Researcgh Fellowship, Stanford University
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