UC Berkeley (B.A., 1970) Princeton University (Ph.D., 1975)
Awards
Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1989) MacArthur Fellowship (1990) Klopsteg Memorial Award (1996) Magellanic Premium (2008) James Craig Watson Medal (2010) Russell Lectureship (2010) Lilienfeld Prize (2013) Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2014)
Scientific career
Fields
Astrophysics: Galaxies and Cosmology
Institutions
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Thesis
Bright Galaxies in Rich Clusters: A Statistical Model for Magnitude Distributions. (1974)
Doctoral advisor
Jim Peebles
Doctoral students
Timothy Beers Marc Postman
Margaret J. Geller (born December 8, 1947) is an American astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Her work has included pioneering maps of the nearby universe, studies of the relationship between galaxies and their environment, and the development and application of methods for measuring the distribution of matter in the universe.
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Margaret J. Geller (born December 8, 1947) is an American astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Her work has included...
have the last name Geller: Axel Geller (born 1999), Argentine tennis player Andrew Geller (1924–2011), American architect Bruce Geller (1930–1978), American...
Margaret Joy Gelling, OBE, FBA, FSA (née Midgley; 29 November 1924 – 24 April 2009) was an English toponymist, known for her extensive studies of English...
respectively. Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller (Gellér Izsák), a retired army sergeant major, and Margaret "Manzy" Freud (Freud Manci). Geller claims that...
structure was discovered c. 1989 by a team of American astronomers led by Margaret J. Geller and John Huchra while analyzing data gathered by the second CfA Redshift...
Campbell & Shlomo Havlin 2011: Gerald Gabrielse 2012: Gordon Kane 2013: MargaretGeller 2014: Edward Ott 2015: David Awschalom 2016: David Pines 2017: Martin...
7 times longer than the CfA2 Great Wall of galaxies (discovered by MargaretGeller and John Huchra of Harvard University in 1989). It also contains several...
astronomers had previously thought. In 1986, Valérie de Lapparent, MargaretGeller and Huchra published the surprisingly non-uniform distribution of galaxies...
billion light-years across. Based on redshift survey data, in 1989 MargaretGeller and John Huchra discovered the "Great Wall", a sheet of galaxies more...
1982. The second survey (CfA2) was started in 1985 by John Huchra and MargaretGeller and measured the redshifts of 18,000 bright galaxies in the Northern...
appointment at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian under MargaretGeller (1986-1989), and while also engaged in a number of corporate and public...
biologist Charlotte Erickson, historian Lee Friedlander, photographer MargaretGeller, astrophysicist Jorie Graham, poet Patricia Hampl, writer John Hollander...
from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2015. "1989: MargaretGeller and John Huchra Map the Universe". Carnegie Institution for Science...
of HVSs in 1988. This was later confirmed in 2005 by Warren Brown, MargaretGeller, Scott Kenyon, and Michael Kurtz. As of 2008,[update] 10 unbound HVSs...
Russian astronomer who studied emission nebula and minor planets MargaretGeller (born 1947), American astrophysicist studying extragalactic astronomy...
Schwarzschild Medal". June 28, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016. "Margaret J. Geller Awarded Karl Schwarzschild Medal". February 5, 2014. Retrieved November...
Survey and as a mentor of generations of young astronomers." 2010 MargaretGeller "For her role in critical discoveries concerning the large-scale structure...
Paris Eustace Geller is a fictional character on the television series Gilmore Girls and its spin-off A Year in the Life, played by Liza Weil. Paris is...
– Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author and poet (d. 2011) 1947 – MargaretGeller, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic 1948 – Luis Caffarelli...
Macroscopic, Microscopic, Mesoscopic: Their Autonomy and Interrelation 1996 MargaretGeller Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Optical Infrared Astronomy...
Gillian Anderson (1996) Kate Mulgrew (1997) Sarah Michelle Gellar (1998) Margaret Colin (1999) Jessica Alba (2000) Yancy Butler (2001) Jennifer Garner (2002)...
Cumbric Diaspora?' in Padel and Parsons (eds.) A Commodity of Good Names: essays in honour of MargaretGelling, Shaun Tyas: Stamford, pp 187–203 v t e...
Khrushchev, which began at an exhibit Geller had helped design for the American National Exhibition in Moscow. Geller worked with the prominent firm of American...
Isle of Harty to a Roman settlement, possibly a villa. The toponymist MargaretGelling observed that the description in Beowulf of Heorot as having a fagne...
obtain his Ph.D. in Astronomy at Harvard University, working with Dr. MargaretGeller. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1986, he was a postdoctoral fellow working...
Sweden) Yoel Elitzur [he] Henry Gannett (1846–1914), American geographer MargaretGelling (1924–2009), English toponymist Michel Grosclaude (1926–2002), philosopher...
and Parsons (eds.) A Commodity of Good Names: essays in honour of MargaretGelling, Shaun Tyas: Stamford, pp 187–203 Taylor, S. and Markus, G. (2006)...
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