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Biography
Introduction
Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962 in Ithaca, New York) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.
Life
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. On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.
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