Anne Archibald
{{short description|Canadian astronomer}}
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Anne Murray Archibald is a Canadian astronomer known for her observations of pulsars{{r|recycled|triple|einstein}} and as one of the developers of SciPy, a scientific programming library for the Python programming language.
Education and career
Archibald did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Waterloo, including internships involving computer graphics and the image analysis of radar data. After doing a master's degree in pure mathematics at McGill University, she became a doctoral student of astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi at McGill,{{r|cpg}} and won both the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and the J.S. Plaskett Medal of the Canadian Astronomical Society for her 2013 doctoral dissertation, The End of Accretion: The X-ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038.{{r|cpg|plaskett}}
After postdoctoral research at ASTRON and then at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, both in the Netherlands and supported by a Veni fellowship of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,{{r|cpg|orcid|veni}} she was a senior lecturer at Newcastle University from 2019 to 2023.{{r|orcid}}
References
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| last = Karouzos | first = Marios
| date = July 2018
| doi = 10.1038/s41550-018-0537-6
| issue = 8
| journal = Nature Astronomy
| pages = 614
| title = Einstein still right
| volume = 2| bibcode = 2018NatAs...2..614K
| s2cid = 125460309
| doi-access = free
}}
{{citation|url=https://www.wired.com/2009/05/missing-link-pulsar/|title=Missing link in pulsar evolution Is a cannibal|magazine=Wired|date=21 May 2009|first=Lisa|last=Grossman}}
{{citation|url=https://astronomy.com/news/2014/01/a-pulsar-discovered-in-a-unique-triple-star-system|magazine=Astronomy|title=A pulsar discovered in a unique triple star system|date=6 January 2014}}
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External links
- [https://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths-physics/staff/profile/annearchibaldnewcastleacuk.html Home page]
- {{Google Scholar id|NU61pIsAAAAJ}}
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