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  1. Robert P. Kirshner (born August 15, 1949) is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clownes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University.

  2. Robert P. Kirshner named TIO Executive Director; Edward C. Stone announces retirement from TIO. April 27th, 2022. Dr. Kirshner is an esteemed scientist known for his discipline-defining work in the field of supernova explosions and their application to the measurement of the history of the universe. A graduate of Harvard College, Kirshner ...

  3. Apr 19, 2021 · 7. 220 views 2 years ago Della Pietra Lecture Series. Title: A Nobel Surprise: The Accelerating Universe - Public Lecture Robert Kirshner is Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University. A...

  4. Kirshner is a coauthor of 392 refereed articles on ADS and his work, principally on supernovae and their application to cosmology has been cited 58,596 times. Among other honors, he has been awarded two Honorary Doctor of Science degrees, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the National Academy’s James Craig Watson Medal, the Dannie Heineman Prize in ...

  5. CXC Biographies: Dr. Robert Kirshner. Associate Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Robert Kirshner is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and an Associate Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He graduated from Harvard College in 1970 and received a Ph.D. in astronomy at Caltech four years later.

  6. SA Shectman, SD Landy, A Oemler, DL Tucker, H Lin, RP Kirshner, ... arXiv preprint astro-ph/9604167. , 1996. 815. 1996. Scrutinizing exotic cosmological models using ESSENCE supernova data combined with other cosmological probes. TM Davis, E Mörtsell, J Sollerman, AC Becker, S Blondin, P Challis, ...

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  8. Feb 14, 2022 · Dr. Robert P. Kirshner Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard University. The expanding universe was discovered at Mount Wilson almost 100 years ago. But there is something new! In the past 20 years, astronomers have found that cosmic expansion is speeding up, driven by a mysterious “dark energy” whose nature we do not understand. Dr.

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