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    Robert P. Kirshner (born August 15, 1949) is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the...
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    universe, and is referred to as a supervoid. It was discovered in 1981 by Robert Kirshner as part of a survey of galactic redshifts. Its centre is located 700...
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  • Kirshner may refer to: Andy Kirshner, American composer, performer, writer, and media artist David-Seth Kirshner (born 1973), American rabbi Don Kirshner...
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  • an editor and artist. She is the daughter of astrophysics professor Robert Kirshner, the great-granddaughter of Olympic hurdler William Rand and the descendant...
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    inhomogeneities. Riess's PhD thesis was supervised by Robert Kirshner and William H. Press and won the Robert J. Trumpler Award in 1999 for PhD theses of unusual...
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    1993 from Harvard University. Schmidt's PhD thesis was supervised by Robert Kirshner and used Type II Supernovae to measure the Hubble Constant. While at...
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  • Kirshner's Rock Concert is an American television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Don Kirshner and...
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  • Leonard Searle and Robert Zinn theorize that galaxy formation occurs through the merger of smaller groups. 1981 — Robert Kirshner, August Oemler, Paul...
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  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Harvard University (under Robert Kirshner) that point to an accelerating universe powered by "dark energy" possibly...
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  • expert Patrick T. Riley, 1966 and 1967, political science professor Robert Kirshner, 1970, astrophysicist Paul Starr, 1974, professor of sociology and...
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