DID YOU KNOW? for August 30 - September 12, 2022:
Did You Know... Andrea Mia Ghez (b: 1965) is an American astrophysicist and professor in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. In 2020 she became just the 4th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing the prize with Reinhard Genzel. Her Nobel was awarded for the discovery of a supermassive compact object, now generally recognized to be a black hole, in the Milky Way’s galactic center.
Ghez has said: “To me, it’s always been very important to encourage young women into the sciences...the Nobel Prize means an opportunity and a responsibility to encourage the next generation of scientists who are passionate about this kind of work...It’s important to have role models. I think seeing people who look like you…succeeding shows you that there’s an opportunity there, that you can do it, that this is a field that is open to you.”
Learn more…
https://astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrea-Ghez
