Wendy Freedman

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Full Name	Wendy Freedman
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1957(1957-07-17)
Age	67
Birthplace	Toronto
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Cancer

Wendy Freedman Biography

Wendy Freedman is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on July 17, 1957 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wendy Laurel Freedman (born July 17th 1957) is an American-Canadian astronomer who is most well-known for her research into the Hubble constant as well as her role as director for the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Chicago. Her primary research interests lie in observational cosmology. Her research focuses on measuring the present and previous growth rates in the universe as well as analyzing the nature that dark energy has.

Freedman was the first to initiate his involvement in the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Project and was chairman for the GMT board since the time it was first announced in 2003 to 2015. GMT has been a global collaboration of world-class universities and research institutions to construct an optical telescope of 25 meters at the Carnegie Institute of Sciences’ Las Campanas Observatory in the Chilean Andes. With a primary mirror that measures 80 feet (24 meters) in diameter The GMT is expected to become the largest ground-based telescope in the world once it’s finished. This telescope is now in the stage of construction and is expected to be fully operational in 2024 and will be able to create images that are 10 times more sharp than Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble Space Telescope.

Freedman is co-leading an international group comprised of 30 astronomers who carried on The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project which aims to determine the scale of distance that is the Universe and to determine the rate of expansion currently occurring that is also called”the” Hubble constant. This number determines the dimension of the visible universe and is essential to determine the age of the universe. Through Key Project Key Project, the team determined the distances of 24 galaxies with Cepheid variable stars and assessed the Hubble constant by using five different methods. The team of researchers, led by Freedman and Freedman, released their final results in 2001. The research provided a value that was the Hubble constant, which is accurate up to 10%, and resolved the long-running, factor-of-two dispute.

Wendy Freedman Net Worth

Wendy Freedman is one of the richest Astronomer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wendy Freedman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Freedman was born into a very culturally Jewish home in Toronto as being the child of a doctor and an accomplished concert pianist. Her first fascination with science was ignited by a physics class in her high school. It was a crucial high school class. This led her to University of Toronto, where she began as a biophysics studentand then an astronomy major. She earned her B.Sc. in 1979. She was in Toronto to complete her graduate studies and was awarded an Ph.D. in Astrophysics and astronomy in 1984. After joining Carnegie Observatories Carnegie Observatories located in Pasadena, California, as postdoctoral fellows in 1984, she was made an academic scientist three years later , becoming the first woman on the permanent Carnegie staff. In 2003, she was promoted in the Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair and Director of Carnegie Observatories. Her early research was primarily in the field of Cepheid Distance Scale.

She has been awarded numerous prizes for her contributions to observational cosmology. These include the Centennial Lectureship of the American Physical Society (1999), the John P. McGovern Award in Science (2000) and the Magellanic Premium Award of the American Philosophical Society (2002) and the Marc Aaronson Lectureship and prize (1994) “in recognition of a decade of fundamental contributions to the areas of the extra galactic distance scale and the stellar populations of galaxies”. In 2009, Freedman was among three co-winners of the Gruber Cosmology Prize. She was awarded her 2016 Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics. The prize was awarded jointly with both the American Institute of Physics and the American Astronomical Society, “for her outstanding contributions and leadership role in using optical and infrared space- and ground-based observations of Cepheid stars, together with innovative analysis techniques, to greatly improve the accuracy of the cosmic distance scale and thereby constrain fundamental cosmological parameters.”

Asteroid 107638 Wendyfreedman, discovered by David Healy at the Junk Bond Observatory in 2001, was named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2007 (M.P.C. 58597 ).

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Wendy Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Wendy Freedman celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.

What did Wendy Freedman discover?

Wendy Freedman, a renowned astronomer and the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, made some of the original measurements of the expansion rate of the universe that resulted in a higher value of the Hubble constant.

How was the Hubble constant discovered?

In 1929, Hubble and colleague Milton Humason used their observations to calculate the mathematical relationship between the distance to a star and the speed at which it is traveling away from the Earth —and thus, the Hubble constant was born.

What is the Hubble constant essentially a measure of?

The Hubble Constant is the unit of measurement used to describe the expansion of the universe. The cosmos has been getting bigger since the Big Bang kick-started the growth about 13.82 billion years ago. The universe, in fact, is getting faster in its acceleration as it gets bigger.

What did Wendy Freedman do?

Wendy Laurel Freedman (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile.

How does the universe expansion affect distances on Earth?

The expansion of the universe does not affect the relative position of astronomical bodies within galaxies. It is true that the universe is expanding, but this does not alter the distance between the earth and the sun. It also does not affect the distance between atoms.