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Charles L. Bennett

Astronomy

Charles Leonard Bennett is an American observational astrophysicist born November 16, 1956, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He is the principal investigator of the NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which made precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background, and he shared the 2010 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Lyman Page and David Spergel for that work.

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Birth Year
1956 1
Birth Date
1956-11-16 1
Field
Astrophysics 1
Nationality
American 1
Birthplace
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
Field (category)
Astrophysics 1
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Charles Leonard Bennett (born November 1956) is an American observational astrophysicist.
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1. Charles L. Bennett - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1956-11-16
  • Infobox, birth_place
    New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
  • Extract, opening sentence
    Charles Leonard Bennett ... is an American observational astrophysicist
  • Infobox, fields
    Astrophysics
  • Member Of: NASA, Infobox, workplaces
    Infobox workplaces: Goddard Space Flight Center; Johns Hopkins University; National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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