Christopher Kochanek

{{short description|American astronomer}}

Christopher Sharpe Kochanek is an American astronomer. He works in the fields of cosmology, gravitational lensing, and supernovae. Kochanek currently is an Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University as well as an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{Cite web |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellow/kochanek-christopher |title=Christopher Kochanek |publisher=aaas.org |accessdate=May 13, 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web |url=https://astronomy.osu.edu/people/kochanek.1 |title=Christopher Kochanek |publisher=osu.edu |accessdate=May 13, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ckochanek/ |title=Christopher Kochanek |publisher=ohio-state.edu |accessdate=May 13, 2017}}

In 2020, he was the recipient of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize with Krzysztof Stanek for their leadership of the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae ASAS-SN),{{Cite web|title=ASAS-SN's Homepage|url=http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml|access-date=2020-11-01|website=www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu}}{{Cite web|title=Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize {{!}} American Astronomical Society|url=https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/beatrice-m-tinsley-prize|access-date=2020-11-01|website=aas.org}}{{Cite web|title=American Astronomical Society Names Recipients of 2020 Awards And Prizes|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=55136|access-date=2020-11-01|website=www.spaceref.com|language=en}} in addition to the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.{{Cite web|title=American Astronomical Society Names Recipients of 2020 Awards And Prizes|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=55136|access-date=2020-11-01|website=www.spaceref.com|language=en}}