Christopher Stubbs

Christopher Stubbs (born March 12, 1958) is an experimental physicist currently on the faculty at Harvard University in both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy. He is a former Chair of Harvard's Department of Physics.^[1]

Biography

Stubbs received an International Baccalaureate degree from Iranzamin International School in Tehran and received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Virginia in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington in 1988 working with Professor Eric Adelberger on experimental tests of gravity. His Ph.D. thesis ruled out the idea of a fifth force, a proposed long range modification of gravity.

Current Projects

• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
• Probing Dark Energy with galaxy clusters
• Precise calibration of astronomical instruments
• Builder status on the PanSTARRS Project
• Galaxy cluster redshifts from the South Pole Telescope
• Testing foundations of gravity with lunar laser ranging, the Apache_Point_Observatory_Lunar_Laser-ranging_Operation.

Past Projects

• Laboratory tests of the equivalence principle (with EotWash group, University of Washington)
• Member of MACHO gravitational microlensing project, a search for dark matter in the Milky Way that ruled out astrophysical objects as being the dark matter in our Galaxy.
• Member of High-z Supernova Search Team, co-discovered the so called dark energy.
• Lead Scientist of the ESSENCE supernova cosmology survey, which is probing the nature of the Dark Energy.
• Past Project Scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

Awards

• Packard Fellow
• 1996: NAS Award for Initiatives in Research from the National Academy of Sciences
• 2007: Gruber Prize in Cosmology (co-recipient with High-z Supernova Search Team)
• 2011: Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Stubbs' colleagues Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss, from the High-z Supernova Search Team for the work done by that collaboration.

References

1. ^ Faculty page, Department of Physics, Harvard University

External links

• Christopher Stubbs

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Name	Stubbs, Christopher William
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Date of birth	March 12, 1958
Place of birth	Frankfurt, Germany
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