P. Frank Winkler, Jr. is an astronomer and noted subject-matter expert on supernova. He received his doctorate from Harvard and is currently the Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor in Physics at Middlebury College located in Middlebury, Vermont. [1]
Winkler received his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology and his doctorate from Harvard University. [2] He began teaching at Middlebury College in 1969 and is currently the Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor Emeritus of Physics. [2]
Dr. Winkler has calculated the distance for the brightest supernova event recorded in human history, SN 1006, as being ~7,200 light years distant.
Winkler has received multiple U.S National Science Foundation Grants for Supernova research, [3] [4] one of which was for a continued collaboration between astronomers from Argentina and the United States for research that focused on imaging Supernova Remnants. [5] Frank Winkler is also a member of the International Astronomical Union. [6]