Charles C. Steidel

{{Short description|American astronomer}}

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| alma_mater = Princeton University;
California Institute of Technology

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| awards = Gruber Cosmology Prize (2010)
MacArthur Fellows Program (2002)
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1997){{Citation | title = Charles C. Steidel received the Helen B. Warner Prize 1997 of the American Astronomical Society. | year = 1997 | journal = Physics Today | volume = 50 | issue = 7 | pages = R76| bibcode = 1997PhT....50R..76.|doi = 10.1063/1.2806688 }}

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Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.{{Cite web|url=http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/|title = Chuck Steidel's Homepage}}

Life

He graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Astrophysical Sciences, and from California Institute of Technology with a PhD in Astronomy, in 1990.{{Cite web | title=cv09.dvi | url=http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ccs/cv_2009.pdf | access-date=2024-12-15 | website=www.astro.caltech.edu}}

On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/08/style/charles-c-steidel-wed-to-miss-hoyt.html?pagewanted=1 "Charles C. Steidel Wed to Miss Hoyt"], The New York Times, November 8, 1987

Awards

Works

  • [https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0679 "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

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