Christopher Stubbs

Christopher Stubbs (born March 12, 1958) is an experimental physicist currently on the faculty at Harvard University in both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy. He is the current Dean of Science at Harvard University and a former Chair of Harvard's Department of Physics.[1]

Christopher William Stubbs
Christopher Stubbs (2011 photo)
Born (1958-03-12) March 12, 1958
Alma materUniversity of Virginia (B.Sc.),
University of Washington (Ph.D.)
Known forDark Energy, fifth force, Gravity
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Astrophysics
InstitutionsHarvard University

Biography

Stubbs received an International Baccalaureate degree from Iranzamin International School in Tehran and received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Virginia in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington in 1988 working with Professor Eric Adelberger on experimental tests of gravity. His Ph.D. thesis ruled out the idea of a fifth force, a proposed long range modification of gravity.

Current Projects

Past Projects
  • Laboratory tests of the equivalence principle (with EotWash group, University of Washington)
  • Member of MACHO gravitational microlensing project, a search for dark matter in the Milky Way that ruled out astrophysical objects as being the dark matter in our Galaxy.
  • Member of High-z Supernova Search Team, co-discovered the so-called dark energy[5]
  • Lead Scientist of the ESSENCE supernova cosmology survey, which is probing the nature of the Dark Energy.
  • Past Project Scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

Awards

References
  1. "Faculty page, Department of Physics, Harvard University". Archived from the original on 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
  2. High et al (SPT team), Weak lensing Mass Measurements of Five Galaxy Clusters in the South Pole Telescope Survey, Using Megacam/Magellan, ApJ 758, 68 (2012)
  3. Stubbs, C. and Tonry, J, Toward 1% Photometry: end to end calibration of astronomical telescopes and detectors, ApJ 646, 1436 (2008)
  4. Drell, S. and Stubbs, C., Realizing the Full Potential of the Open Skies Treaty, Arms Control Today, 41 (2011)
  5. Reiss et al (High-z Team), Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant, Ap J 116, 1009, (1998)
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