Charles C. Steidel

Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962 Ithaca, New York) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.^[1]

He graduated from Princeton University with an A. B., in Astrophysical Sciences, and from California Institute of Technology with a Ph. D., in Astronomy, in 1990.^[2] On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.^[3]

Awards

• 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize from The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe

• 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• "The Structure and Kinematics of the Circum-Galactic Medium from Far-UV Spectra of z~2-3 Galaxies", Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Authors: C. C. Steidel, D. K. Erb, A. E. Shapley, M. Pettini, N. A. Reddy, M. Bogosavljević, G. C. Rudie, O. Rakic

References

1. ^ http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/
2. ^ http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/cv_2009.pdf
3. ^ "Charles C. Steidel Wed to Miss Hoyt", The New York Times, November 8, 1987

External links

• "Charles C. Steidel", Scientific Commons
• "Steidel, Charles C.", NASA Technical Reports

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