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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.

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. On November 7, 1987, he married Sarah Nichols Hoyt.

Awards

• 2010 Gruber Cosmology Prize from The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in recognition of his revolutionary studies of the most distant galaxies in the universe
• 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• "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

References

1. "Charles C. Steidel received the Helen B. Warner Prize 1997 of the American Astronomical Society.", Physics Today, 50 (7): R76, 1997, Bibcode:1997PhT....50R..76., doi:10.1063/1.2806688
2. "Chuck Steidel's Homepage".
3. "cv09.dvi" (PDF). www.astro.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-15.
4. "Charles C. Steidel Wed to Miss Hoyt", The New York Times, November 8, 1987

External links

• "Charles C. Steidel", Scientific Commons
• "Steidel, Charles C.", NASA Technical Reports

• 1962 births
• American astronomers
• California Institute of Technology faculty
• California Institute of Technology alumni
• Princeton University alumni
• MacArthur Fellows
• Scientists from Ithaca, New York
• Living people