Anna Frebel

Anna Frebel (born 1980 in Berlin) is a German astronomer working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe.

Anna Frebel
Anna Frebel (2018)
Born1980 (age 40–41)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materAustralian National University
Known forDiscovered oldest star
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsMIT
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
University of Texas

Career

Anna Frebel grew up Göttingen, Germany. After finishing high school, she studied physics in Freiburg im Breisgau. She continued her studies in Australia, and obtained her PhD from the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory in Canberra. A W. J. McDonald Postdoctoral Fellowship brought her to the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, where she continued her studies.

From 2009 to 2011, she was a Clay Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge (Massachusetts). Since 2012 she is an assistant professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2005, Frebel discovered the star HE 1327-2326, which is the most iron-deficient star, stemming from a time very shortly after the Big Bang. In 2007 she also discovered the red giant star HE 1523-0901, which is about 13.2 billion years old.

Awards and honors

Publications (selection)
  • Auf der Suche nach den ältesten Sternen (in German), Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-021512-3
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ed. (2008), New horizons in astronomy : Frank N. Bash Symposium 2007 : proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA, 14–16 October 2007 (in German), San Francisco

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2013-04-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Anna Frebel at MIT
  3. "Lise-Meitner-Lectures 2010". www.dpg-physik.de. Archived from the original on 2018-12-02. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
  4. "Physikerinnen als Role Models – derStandard.at". DER STANDARD (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-10.
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