Adrian Price-Whelan | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Doctorate degree in astrophysics |
Alma mater | Columbia University and New York University |
Occupation | Astronomer |
Notable work | Mapping dark matter in the Milky Way Surveys of stars in the Milky Way |
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Website | https://adrian.pw/ |
Adrian Price-Whelan is an American astronomer and researcher who is known for discovering the star cluster Price-Whelan 1.[1][2][3] He is the son of Michael Whelan.[4][better source needed]
Price-Whelan holds a bachelor's degree in physics from New York University and master's and doctoral degrees in astronomy from Columbia University in the city of New York.[5][6]
Price-Whelan is currently a research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York.[7] He has expertise in computational analysis, analyzing chemical data for large numbers of stars in the Milky Way and interpretation of kinematics.[8][9]