Glennys Farrar

Glennys Reynolds Farrar (born 1946) is a professor of physics at New York University who specializes in particle physics, cosmology and the study of dark matter.[1][2]

Glennys Farrar
Alma materUC Berkeley, Princeton
Scientific career
FieldsParticle Physics
InstitutionsCaltech, Rutgers, NYU

Education

Farrar obtained a bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley in 1968, going on to earn her PhD from Princeton in 1971, becoming the first woman to receive a physics PhD from Princeton.[3][4][5]

Career

After graduating from Princeton, Farrar was a faculty member at Caltech and at Rutgers University, then joined NYU in 1998.[4] At NYU, she chaired the physics department and founded the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics.[5]

She has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study,[6] and in 1975 she was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship.[7] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and in 2014, she was selected as a Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics.[8][9]

References
  1. Glennys Farrar publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Cartwright, Jon (2007-05-09). "Hunt for fifth force focuses on Bullet Cluster". Physics World. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  3. "Glennys Farrar". New York University. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  4. "Henry Semat Lecture in Physics: Glennys R Farrar, Could Dark Matter be Made of Quarks?". City College of New York. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  5. "Glennys Farrar". World Science Festival. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  6. "Glennys Farrar". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  7. "Past Fellows". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  8. "Glennys R. Farrar". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  9. "Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 2019-04-28.


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