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Alec SomervilleRachel Somerville Rachel Somerville American astrophysicist Rachel S. Somerville is an American astrophysicist and astronomer and holds the George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Chair in Astrophysics at Rutgers University.[1] She is known for theoretical research into galaxy formation and evolution. She was awarded the 2013 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics[2] “for providing fundamental insights into galaxy formation and evolution using semi-analytic modeling, simulations and observations.” Career Somerville[3] attended Gompers Secondary School in San Diego, a math/science/computer magnet school, where she first became interested in physics.[4] She holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Reed College, awarded in 1989, and a Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she worked with Joel Primack. Her postdoctoral appointments… (Source: Wikipedia)
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