Peter Garnavich
Born
Peter Marcus Garnavich

United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Maryland (1980), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983), University of Washington (1991)
SpouseLara Arielle Phillips
Awards
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Notre Dame
ThesisThe stellar angular correlation : clues to wide binary star properties (1991)
Doctoral advisorBruce Margon
Websitehttps://physics.nd.edu/people/peter-garnavich/

Peter M. Garnavich is the current chair of the Department of Physics at University of Notre Dame.[1] Garnavich joined the Notre Dame in 2000 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2003. In 2008 he earned the rank of full professor. His primary research area is the study of supernovae and their diversity.

Early life and education

Garnavich earned a bachelor of science in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1980, a master of science in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1983, and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington in 1991.

Research and career

He has been a co-author on over 900 papers, a first author on over 200 papers, and has an h-index of 69.[2]

After his time at MIT, he served as a research associate at the Space Telescope Science Institute from 1983–1985. Following completing his Ph.D. he was a postdoctoral fellow at Dominion Astrophysical Observatory from 1992–1995. Garnavich also was a fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian from 1995–1999. At Harvard, he was a key member of the High-Z Supernova Search Team that discovered the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.[3] That discovery was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics as well as the Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2007) and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2015).

References

  1. Peter Garnavich appointed chair of the Department of Physics
  2. "ADS Author Search". Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  3. Stowe, Gene (2011-10-05). "Nobel winners' team that discovered accelerating universe included Garnavich". College of Science. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
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