Andrea Ghez

天文学和物理学教授  天文学家  麦克阿瑟学者 银河探险家

她到达了男子从未达到的高度

坐落于夏威夷死火山莫纳克亚山顶，Keck天文台从1995年起就成为了天文学教授Andrea Ghez的实验室。她研究银河系的转动中心以及银河中心附近的行星的运动。

Andrea Ghez拍下了第一张高清的银河系，这使人们发现了银河中心有黑洞的存在，重新定义了人们对银河系形成的认知。Andrea Ghez的成就为她赢得了麦克阿瑟学者的称号，瑞典皇家科学院颁发的克拉夫科学奖以及英国皇室颁发的Bakerian奖，她的TEDGlobal秀吸引了50多万的在线观众。

Andrea Ghez

Professor of Astronomy and Physics

She goes where no man has gone before.

Sitting atop Hawaii’s dormant Mauna Kea volcano, the Keck Observatory has been Astronomy Professor Andrea Ghez’s laboratory since 1995. She studies the rotational center of the Milky Way and the movement of hundreds of stars near its galactic center. Ghez took the first clear photo of the Milky Way, leading to the discovery of a supermassive black hole at its center and redefining our understanding of how galaxies form.

Ghez’s work has earned her a MacArthur Fellowship, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Bakerian Medal from Britain’s Royal Society. Her TEDGlobal talk has drawn an audience of more than half a million online viewers.