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== Awards and honors ==
== Awards and honors ==
* 2007: Charlene-Heisler-Prize for the best astronomy PhD in 2006 in Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asa.astronomy.org.au/chp.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-04-07 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409083952/http://asa.astronomy.org.au/chp.html |archivedate=2013-04-09 |df= }}</ref>
* 2007: Charlene-Heisler-Prize for the best astronomy PhD in 2006 in Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asa.astronomy.org.au/chp.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-04-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409083952/http://asa.astronomy.org.au/chp.html |archivedate=2013-04-09 }}</ref>
* 2009: Opening presentation [[XLAB]] Science Festival, Göttingen
* 2009: Opening presentation [[XLAB]] Science Festival, Göttingen
* 2009: [[Ludwig Biermann Award]] (Young Astronomer Award) of the [[Astronomische Gesellschaft|German Astronomical Society]]
* 2009: [[Ludwig Biermann Award]] (Young Astronomer Award) of the [[Astronomische Gesellschaft|German Astronomical Society]]

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Anna Frebel
Anna Frebel (2018)
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materAustralian National University
Known forDiscovered oldest star
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsMIT
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
University of Texas

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

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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

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