Andrea M. Ghez

What gets me about Andrea Ghez is the patience the work demanded. She didn't just theorize about the Milky Way's center, she spent decades tracking individual stars whipping around something invisible until the case for a supermassive black hole became impossible to argue with. That 2020 Nobel, shared with Reinhard Genzel, capped a run of recognition stretching back to the 1994 Annie Jump Cannon Award and the 2008 MacArthur grant. As only the fourth woman to win the physics Nobel, she carries weight beyond the data. I find her the rare scientist whose persistence is as instructive as her discovery.

Name (English)

Andrea M. Ghez

Name (Japanese)

アンドレア・ゲズ

Reading

あんどれあ・げず

Born

June 16, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

astronomer / university teacher / mathematician / scientist

University

University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Awards & achievements

• 2008 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 1994 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
• 2016 Royal Society Bakerian Medal
• 1999 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
• 2012 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy
• 2004 Sackler Prize for Physics
• 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 2017 Sven Berggren prize

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%82%BA

Tags

• New York
• astronomer
• university teacher
• mathematician

Last updated

2026-06-02

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