Dr. Suntzeff is a distinguished university professor at Texas A&M University.
COLLEGE STATION, TX, May 09, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Zuntzeff celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Suntzeff is a distinguished university professor at Texas A&M University who formerly taught as a full professor in the department of physics and astronomy between 2006 and 2013. An observational astronomer who works the fields of cosmology, supernovae, galaxy evolution and large-scale structure, stellar populations, astronomical site surveys and instrumentation, he has been in the field now for more than 35 years. Dr. Suntzeff has worked as an astronomer at the University of Washington, the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, and, most recently, at the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in La Serena, Chile, where he served as the associate director for science for NOAO between 2003 and 2006.
Twenty years ago, in 1998, Dr. Suntzeff co-founded the High-Z Supernova Team that discovered acceleration and the presence of dark energy in the universe. Working alongside several other astronomers, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for the research, it was Dr. Suntzeff who was actually responsible for initiating the discovery. In addition to his work on the Supernova Team, he also co-founded the Calan/Tololo Supernova Survey, which established Type Ia supernovae as the most precise markers for measuring cosmological distances.
During his career, Dr. Suntzeff has contributed articles to the Astronomical Journal, Astronomical Society Pacific, and Astronomy and Astrophysics, among other scholarly publications. He is a longstanding member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the International Astronomical Union, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Recognized with over a dozen awards, Dr. Suntzeff more recently received a 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, 2007 Gruber Prize in Cosmology from the Gruber Foundation and 1998 Science Breakthrough of the Year Award for the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe from Science Magazine. He has been cited in the 64th edition of Who's Who in America and the first edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Dr. Suntzeff holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics with distinction from Stanford University and a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After earning his degrees, he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow with the National Science Foundation between 1981 and 1982, followed by another three years as a Las Campanas fellow with the Mount Wilson and Las Campanas Observatory beginning in 1982.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Ph.D., has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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