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Sandra Faber

(1944) Astronomer

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Sandra Faber is an astronomer.

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Born: December 28, 1944
Profession: Astronomer

About Sandra Faber

[Wikidata] American astrophysicist... | [Wikipedia] Sandra Moore Faber is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor emerita of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works at the Lick Observatory. She has made discoveries linking the brightness

Quotes by Sandra Faber · Page 2

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning…

Education

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I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like…

Biology

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Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.

First time

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The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete…

Astronomy

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Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

Back

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Antarctica is a paradise compared to Mars.

Antarctica

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There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one…

Character

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The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

Astronomy

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The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.

History

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