Adrian Price-Whelan

Adrian Price-Whelan is an American astronomer and researcher who is known for discovering the star cluster Price-Whelan 1.[1][2][3] He is the son of Michael Whelan.[4]

Adrian Price-Whelan
NationalityAmerican
EducationDoctorate degree in astrophysics
Alma materColumbia University and New York University
OccupationAstronomer
Notable workMapping dark matter in the Milky Way
Surveys of stars in the Milky Way
Parent
Websitehttps://adrian.pw/

Education

Price-Whelan holds a bachelor's degree in physics from New York University and master's and doctoral degrees in astronomy from Columbia University in the city of New York.[5][6]

Career

Price-Whelan is currently a research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York.[7] He has expertise in computational analysis, analyzing chemical data for large numbers of stars in the Milky Way and interpretation of kinematics.[8][9]

References
  1. Nidever, David L.; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Choi, Yumi; Beaton, Rachael L.; Hansen, Terese T.; Boubert, Douglas; Aguado, David; Ezzeddine, Rana; Oh, Semyeong; Evans, N. Wyn (December 16, 2019). "Spectroscopy of the Young Stellar Association Price-Whelan 1: Origin in the Magellanic Leading Arm and Constraints on the Milky Way Hot Halo". The Astrophysical Journal. 887 (2): 115. arXiv:1910.05360. Bibcode:2019ApJ...887..115N. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab52fc. ISSN 1538-4357. S2CID 204512426.
  2. Foley, Michael (January 10, 2021). "Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Adrian Price-Whelan". Astrobites. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  3. "PyData New York City 2017 - Adrian Price-Whelan". pydata.org. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  4. Michael Whelan biography Retrieved 2021-02-15
  5. "Adrian Price-Whelan | Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists". blavatnikawards.org. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  6. "Columbia University Department of Astronomy". www.astro.columbia.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  7. "All Events | U-M LSA Astronomy". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  8. "Adrian Price-Whelan". Simons Foundation. July 11, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  9. "Events | College of Science". science.utah.edu. Retrieved February 9, 2021.


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