Alumni Achievement Award: Mark Phillips

This year's Alumni Achievement Award recipient is Mark Phillips (Ph.D. ’77) who received his Ph.D. from UCSC, and spent his career at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American and Las Campanas Observatories. He has made important contributions both in the fields of active galactic nuclei and supernovae. In 1993, his research led to the discovery of a method for measuring precise distances to thermonuclear supernovae. He was also a member of the Calán/Tololo Survey and the High-Z Supernova Search, whose work led to the discovery of Dark Energy.

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