Kurt Adelberger

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Kurt Adelberger
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D. from California Institute of Technology, B.S. in astronomy from Harvey Mudd College,
Known forAstrophysics, Sustainability
SpouseAmy Adelberger
RelativesTheodore Welton (grandfather in law)
AwardsJunior Fellow at Harvard University

Kurt Ludwig Adelberger is an American astrophysicist and sustainability manager, who formerly worked at Google as a principal in energy and sustainability and was previously the Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company. [1]

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Education

He earned his B.S. at Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where he was advised by Charles C. Steidel. [2] His thesis was entitled Star formation and structure formation at redshifts 1 < z < 4 and has been cited in 31 other papers. He defended his thesis in 2001. [3]

Research and career

Prior to working at Mckinsey & Company, Adelberger worked at Carnegie Observatories. [1] He has published 194 papers in the field of astrophysics, and has been cited over 2000 times. [4] In 2000, Adelberger was named a junior fellow of Harvard University. [2]

Selected publications

His notable publications include Lyman-Break Galaxies at z 4 and theEvolution of the Ultraviolet Luminosity Density at High Redshift, cited by 1945 other articles and Spectroscopic confirmation of a population of normal star-forming galaxies at redshifts z> 3 cited by 1766 other articles. He has spoken at GreenBiz on how distributed generation will influence grid evolution. [5] He also holds the patent for a thermostat system which allows the user to specify a range of acceptable temperatures. [6]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stellar population</span> Grouping of stars by similar metallicity

In 1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes that Jan Oort originally conceived this type of classification in 1926.

Rychard J. Bouwens is an associate professor at Leiden University. He is also a former member of the Advanced Camera for Surveys Guaranteed Time Observation team and postdoctoral research astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He obtained his bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, and mathematics from Hope College. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Joseph Silk and also worked with Tom Broadhurst.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyman-alpha blob</span> Astronomical object type

In astronomy, a Lyman-alpha blob (LAB) is a huge concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line. LABs are some of the largest known individual objects in the Universe. Some of these gaseous structures are more than 400,000 light years across. So far they have only been found in the high-redshift universe because of the ultraviolet nature of the Lyman-alpha emission line. Since Earth's atmosphere is very effective at filtering out UV photons, the Lyman-alpha photons must be redshifted in order to be transmitted through the atmosphere.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GRB 970508</span> Gamma-ray burst detected on May 8, 1997

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pea galaxy</span> Possible type of luminous blue compact galaxy

A Pea galaxy, also referred to as a Pea or Green Pea, might be a type of luminous blue compact galaxy that is undergoing very high rates of star formation. Pea galaxies are so-named because of their small size and greenish appearance in the images taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).

Lyman-break galaxies are star-forming galaxies at high redshift that are selected using the differing appearance of the galaxy in several imaging filters due to the position of the Lyman limit. The technique has primarily been used to select galaxies at redshifts of z = 3–4 using ultraviolet and optical filters, but progress in ultraviolet astronomy and in infrared astronomy has allowed the use of this technique at lower and higher redshifts using ultraviolet and near-infrared filters.

Charles C. Steidel is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">SSA22 Protocluster</span> Galaxy protocluster

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyman-alpha blob 1</span> Lyman-alpha blob in the constellation of Aquarius

Lyman-alpha blob 1 (LAB-1) is a giant cosmic cloud of gas located in the constellation of Aquarius, approximately 11.5 billion light-years from Earth with a redshift (z) of 3.09. It was discovered unexpectedly in 2000 by Charles Steidel and colleagues, who were surveying for high-redshift galaxies using the 200 inch Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The researchers had been investigating the abundance of galaxies in the young Universe when they came across two objects which would become known as Lyman-alpha blobs—huge concentrations of gases emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line of hydrogen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Simon Lilly</span>

Simon John Lilly FRS is a professor in the Department of Physics at ETH Zürich.

Alice Eve Shapley is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. She was one of the discoverers of the spiral galaxy BX442. Through her time at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) she has taught Nature of the Universe, Black Holes and Cosmic Catastrophes, Cosmology: Our Changing Concepts of the Universe, Galaxies, Scientific Writing, AGNs, Galaxies, *and* Writing, and The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and the IGM. Shapley has committed herself too over a two decades of research and publication in the interest of physics and astronomy.

Benedetta Ciardi is an Italian astrophysicist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">TON 618</span> Quasar and Lyman-alpha blob in the constellation Canes Venatici

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Q2343-BX418 is a young, low-metallicity dwarf galaxy located about 10 billion light years away from Earth. It has a redshift of 2.3052, and a stellar mass of 500 million solar masses.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NGC 708</span> Galaxy in the constellation Andromeda

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Dawn K. Erb is an American physicist. She is an associate professor in the department of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Marc Alexander Rafelski is an American astrophysicist. Rafelski studied astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles with Andrea Gehz. He obtained his PhD in physics from the University of California, San Diego, under supervision of Arthur Wolfe, in 2011.

References

  1. 1 2 Author. Kurt Adelberger
  2. 1 2 Office, Harvard News (September 21, 2000). "Society of Fellows welcomes its Junior Fellows". news.harvard.edu. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  3. Adelberger, Kurt Ludvig (2002). Star formation and structure formation at redshifts 1 < z < 4 - CaltechTHESIS. thesis.library.caltech.edu (phd). doi:10.7907/F2SF-4J89 . Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  4. "Kurt L. Adelberger". Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  5. "How distributed generation will drive grid evolution". July 20, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  6. "Soliciting User Input For Thermostat Control" . Retrieved September 13, 2015.