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Matias Zaldarriaga
Matias Zaldarriaga is an Argentinean cosmologist. Life Born in Coghlan neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, at the present time he works in the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is known especially for his work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Together with Uros Seljak, he developed the CMBFAST code, the first computationally efficient method for computing the anisotropy of the CMB for an arbitrary set of cosmological parameters. In 2018, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Awards In 2003, he was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society, and in 2005 he won the Gribov Medal of the European Physical Society. In 2006, he was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2020, he was jointly awarded the Buchalter Cosmology Prize. Zaldarriaga was awarded the 2021 Gruber Prize in Cosmology The Gruber Prize in Cosmology, established in 2000, is one of three prest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coghlan, Buenos Aires
Coghlan is a '' barrio'' (neighbourhood), of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the name of a middle class neighbourhood located between Belgrano, Saavedra, Núñez and Villa Urquiza; it was originally inhabited by Irish and English immigrants. The 1887 sale of 30 hectares (75 acres) of land to the Mitre Railway led to the railway's extension under the direction of Irish Argentine engineer John Coghlan, in whose honor the train station was named. The sale of residential lots after 1891 led to the rapid growth of what was then a suburb of Buenos Aires and, in 1896, Dr. Ignacio Pirovano opened an emergency hospital, today among the city's public medical facilities. Coghlan was formally designated as a ''barrio'' (borough) in 1968 and is today still a quiet bedroom community A commuter town is a populated area that is primarily residential rather than commercial or industrial. Routine travel from home to work and back is called commuting, which is where the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |