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Chryssa Kouveliotou

Astronomy

Chryssa Kouveliotou is a Greek astrophysicist born May 26, 1953 in Athens, a professor at George Washington University and a retired senior technologist in high energy astrophysics at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She has made major contributions to the study of transient cosmic phenomena including gamma ray bursts and discovered magnetars in 1998. She shared the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Victoria Kaspi.

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Birth Year
1953 1
Birth Date
1953-05-26 1
Nationality
Greek 1
Birthplace
Athens 1
Field
Field (category)
Astrophysics 1
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  • Infobox, birth_date
    1953-05-26
  • Infobox, birth_place
    Athens
  • Extract, opening sentence
    Chryssa Kouveliotou ... is a Greek astrophysicist
  • Wikipedia 'Chryssa Kouveliotou': stated occupation/field in article intro, checked 2026-09-27
  • Works In: Astrophysics, Lead sentence
    Chryssa Kouveliotou (born May 26, 1953) is a Greek astrophysicist.
  • Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Categories
    Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
  • Member Of: American Physical Society, Article text
    She has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, of the American Association fo
  • Member Of: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Article text
    She has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012, as well as Legacy Fellow of th
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