Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nicholas B. Suntzeff

American astronomer and cosmologist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1952

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States

Profession: astronomer, physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nicholas B.
Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program.
He is an observational astronomer specializing in cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations, and astronomical instrumentation.
With Brian Schmidt he founded the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 to Schmidt and Adam Riess.