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About Amy Barger
- Amy J.
- Barger (born January 18, 1971) is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other far distant objects.
- She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected.
- She also worked with others on discoveries concerning stellar activity in distant galaxies.
- She currently is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Barger earned a Ph.D.
- in Astronomy in 1997 from King's College, University of Cambridge where she was a Marshall scholar.
- Following which she worked on the Morphs collaboration studying the formation and morphologies of distant galaxies.
- She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2001 Annie J.
- Cannon Award in Astronomy and the 2002 Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the 2007 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society and a 2002 Alfred P.
- Sloan and a 2003 David and Lucille Packard fellowships. In 2017 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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