Riess, Adam G.
Adam G. Riess personal account of his work in cosmology, 2007.
Personal and informal account by Adam G. Riess discussing his work in cosmology from the late 1990s to the present. The account was prompted by the work of his student, Ursula Pavlish, who was gathering information to conduct a series of interviews for a project on the history of recent cosmology. Topics include: cosmology, dark energy, and supernovas.
Ph.D., astrophysics (Harvard University, 1996). Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University (2006- ); Senior Science Staff, Space Telescope Science Institute (1999-2005); Miller Fellow, U.C. Berkeley (1996-1999). Research involves measurements of the cosmological framework with supernovae (exploding stars) and Cepheids (pulsating stars).
Riess, Adam G.
Pavlish, Ursula Rattay
Cosmology
Dark energy (Astronomy)
Supernovae.
Memoirs. aat
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