Anne Archibald

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Anne Murray Archibald is a Canadian astronomer known for her observations of pulsars[1][2][3] and as one of the developers of SciPy, a scientific programming library for the Python programming language.

Education and career[edit]

Archibald did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Waterloo, including internships involving computer graphics and the image analysis of radar data. After doing a master's degree in pure mathematics at McGill University, she became a doctoral student of astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi at McGill,[4] and won both the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics of the American Physical Society and the J.S. Plaskett Medal of the Canadian Astronomical Society for her 2013 doctoral dissertation, The End of Accretion: The X-ray Binary/Millisecond Pulsar Transition Object PSR J1023+0038.[4][5]

After postdoctoral research at ASTRON and then at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, both in the Netherlands and supported by a Veni fellowship of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,[4][6][7] she was a senior lecturer at Newcastle University from 2019 to 2023.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Grossman, Lisa (21 May 2009), "Missing link in pulsar evolution Is a cannibal", Wired
  2. ^ "A pulsar discovered in a unique triple star system", Astronomy, 6 January 2014
  3. ^ Karouzos, Marios (July 2018), "Einstein still right", Nature Astronomy, 2 (8): 614, Bibcode:2018NatAs...2..614K, doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0537-6, S2CID 125460309
  4. ^ a b c 2015 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics Recipient: Anne Archibald, McGill University, retrieved 2020-09-24
  5. ^ 2015 Plaskett Medal, Canadian Astronomical Society, 16 May 2016, retrieved 2020-09-24
  6. ^ a b "Anne M. Archibald", ORCID, retrieved 2020-09-24
  7. ^ Veni fellowship for Anne Archibald, ASTRON, 17 July 2015, retrieved 2020-09-24

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