Original upload date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:10:51 GMT
What’s it like coming back to a campus where you studied physics as a high school student during the summer of ‘65?
Here we document special moments in our Physics & Astronomy Department with Honora
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ry Degree Recipient Robert Kirshner the day before and the day of Ohio University’s 2019 Graduate Commencement.
Traveling from California where he serves as the Chief Program Officer for Science at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, Kirshner spent time in our Department meeting with students and faculty, he gave a talk at our special colloquium, and signed copies of his book, ‘The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos’.
Kirshner is an expert on supernovae and was a senior member of one of two teams that demonstrated that cosmic expansion is accelerating. This discovery was recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three scientists, two of whom were Kirshner’s former students. Kirshner was a postdoctoral mentor for Professor Ryan Chornock and was instrumental in planning the construction of the MDM 2.4m telescope. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and former President of the American Astronomical Society.
