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Charles Liu

Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Charles Liu
Charles Liu

Title: Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Institution: CUNY

Discipline: Physics & Cosmology

Appearances: 1

Notable: 2024 American Astronomical Society Education Prize; AAS Legacy Fellow (2020); President of the Astronomical Society of New York; 2001 AIP Science Writing Award (with Tyson and Irion); helped design the Rose Center for Earth and Space at AMNH

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Biography

Astronomer and astronomy educator whose research focuses on colliding galaxies, starburst galaxies, and the star formation history of the universe. He is an associate at the Department of Astrophysics and Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and co-authored 'One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos' with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Sample Works

Roundtable Appearances

The Span of Infinity
October 25, 2014 · ▶ Video
The Span of Infinity
The roundtable explores how no thing conceived in the mind has enjoyed a greater confluence of cosmological, mathematical, philosophical, psychological, and theological inquiry...
Death & Spirituality Mathematics Philosophy
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber, Joel David Hamkins, Charles Liu, Eric Steinhart
Podcast (2:04:30)
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