Jean Peck Krisch (born 1939) is an American theoretical
cosmologist and
astrophysicist whose research concerns the theory of
general relativity and the behavior of
relativistic star
A relativistic star is a rotating star whose behavior is well described by general relativity, but not by classical mechanics. The first such object to be identified was radio pulsars, which consist of rotating neutron stars. Rotating supermassiv ...
s. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita of Physics at the
University of Michigan.
Education and career
Krisch graduated from the
University of Maryland, College Park in 1960 and completed a Ph.D. at
Cornell University in 1965. Her dissertation was ''A Calculation of the Baryon – Vector Meson Mixing Parameters''.
She became a faculty member at the University of Michigan in 1974, was named the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics in 1991, and retired to become Thurnau Professor Emerita in 2017.
Recognition
Krisch was president of the council of the
Society of Physics Students for 1991–1993, and president of
Sigma Pi Sigma
Sigma Pi Sigma (), founded at Davidson College on December 11, 1921, is the oldest and only American honor society for physics and astronomy. It is an organization within the Society of Physics Students and the American Institute of Physics a ...
, a US honor society for physics, for 1994–1996. She became a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics.
The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation.
* List of American Physic ...
in 1998, "for leadership and national contributions to the Society of Physics Students, effective and innovative undergraduate physics teaching, including to preservice elementary teachers, and for successful mentorship of women graduate students."
References
External links
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1939 births
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Cornell University alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century American women