Kyongae Chang, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kyongae Chang

astronomer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1946

Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea

Profession: astronomer, astrophysicist

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kyongae Chang (Korean: ???, born September 5, 1946) is a South Korean astrophysicist.
She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens. Chang was born in Seoul.
She worked as a research associate on astrometric binaries with Professors van de Kamp and Heintz at Sproul Observatory from 1969 till 1971.
From 1975 until 1980 she worked on a Dr.
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at Hamburg University, graduating with her work on the Chang-Refsdal lens.
The main result was published in Nature in 1979 immediately after the discovery of the first gravitational lens.She returned to Korea in 1985 and became a professor at Cheongju University.