Idit Zehavi Explained

Idit Zehavi
Native Name:עדית זהבי
Native Name Lang:he
Birth Place:Israel
Nationality:Israeli
Alma Mater:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Chicago
Occupation:astrophysicist, astronomer
Employer:Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Arizona
Case Western Reserve University

Idit Zehavi (he|עדית זהבי) (born 1969) is an Israeli astrophysicist and researcher who discovered an anomaly in the mapping of the cosmos, which offered insight into how the universe is expanding. She is part of the team completing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and is one of the world's most highly cited scientists according to the list published annually by Thomson Reuters.

Biography

Idit Zehavi was born in Israel in 1969[1] and completed her education in Jerusalem, earning a PhD from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998.[2] That same year, while researching the expansion of the universe, she and a colleague, Avishai Dekel, noted an anomaly in the cosmos which suggested that the portion of the galaxy where earth lies is expanding faster than the entirety of the universe. The findings were independently noted by another researcher, Adam Riess, from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] Soon after, Zehavi moved to the United States to complete her post-doctorate studies in galaxy clustering at the University of Chicago and participate in research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.[4] She left Fermilab in 2004 for the University of Arizona and continued working on the research of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).[5] In 2005, she participated in research under the direction of Daniel Eisenstein, which detected "cosmic ripples",[6] which confirmed the cosmological theory of the creation of the universe.[7]

In 2006, she joined Case Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio, as an Associate Professor in the Astronomy Department.[8] In 2009, Zehavi was awarded a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to continue her work with the SDSS to expand her work on galaxy clustering to encompass a larger scale view of the universe.[9] According to the annual listing produced by Thomson Reuters, Zehavi is one of the world's most highly cited scientists.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Brain Gain: Idit Zehavi. 20 November 2015. The Plain Dealer. 27 November 2006. Cleveland, Ohio. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151121045153/http://www.cleveland.com/businessmonday/wide/index.ssf?%2Fbusinessmonday%2Fwide%2F11braingain27.html. 21 November 2015.
  2. Web site: Cosmology Group. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 20 November 2015. Jerusalem, Israel.
  3. News: Supernovas Light Up Cosmic Growth Spurt. 20 November 2015. Science Magazine. 15 May 1998. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  4. Perricone. Mike. Friends of Friends. FermiNews. 21 March 2003. 26. 5. 20 November 2015. Fermilab. Batavia, Illinois.
  5. News: Astronomers Find Gravity's Signature in Galaxy Distribution. https://web.archive.org/web/20151121024203/http://uanews.org/story/astronomers-find-gravity-s-signature-in-galaxy-distribution. usurped. November 21, 2015. 20 November 2015. UA News. 14 January 2005. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
  6. News: SDSS Measures Size of the Universe; Finds Big Bang Echo in Galaxy Distribution. 20 November 2015. Fermilab Today. 7 April 2005. Batavia, Illinois.
  7. Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies. astro-ph/0501171. 10 Jan 2005. D. J. Eisenstein . I. Zehavi . D. W. Hogg . R. Scoccimarro . M. R. Blanton . R. C. Nichol . R. Scranton . H. Seo . M. Tegmark . Z. Zheng . S. Anderson . J. Annis . N. Bahcall . J. Brinkmann . S. Burles . F. J. Castander . A. Connolly . I. Csabai . M. Doi . M. Fukugita . J. A. Frieman . K. Glazebrook . J. E. Gunn . J. S. Hendry . G. Hennessy . Z. Ivezic . S. Kent . G. R. Knapp . H. Lin . Y. Loh . R. H. Lupton . B. Margon . T. McKay . A. Meiksin . J. A. Munn . A. Pope . M. Richmond . D. Schlegel . D. Schneider . K. Shimasaku . C. Stoughton . M. Strauss . M. SubbaRao . A. S. Szalay . I. Szapudi . D. Tucker . B. Yanny . D. York . 10.1086/466512 . 633 . The Astrophysical Journal . 2. 560–574 . 2005ApJ...633..560E. 4834543.
  8. Web site: Idit Zehavi. Case Western Reserve University. 20 November 2015. Cleveland, Ohio.
  9. Web site: From Galaxy Clustering to Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Grantome. 20 November 2015 . Zehavi . Idit . Zheng . Zheng .
  10. Web site: The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. Thomson Reuters. 20 November 2015. 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117020628/http://sites.biology.duke.edu/donglab/images/papers/thomas_reuter_2014.pdf. 17 November 2015.

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