Professor
Charles R. Alcock
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Astrophysicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
Elected
2006
Director. Led the search for Massive Compact Objects in the halo of the Milky Way (MACHOs) via gravitational microlensing and showed that they were not a major contributor to the Dark Matter inventory of the universe. Invented one of the first clean tests for the Cosmological Constant (the Alcock-Paczynski effect).
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