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**Alexei Vladimir Filippenko**
Alexei Vladimir Filippenko
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Born	July 25, 1958 (age 51); Oakland, California, USA
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A.; California Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
Known for	Type Ia Supernova Studies
Notable awards	Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy; Guggenheim Fellowship

Filippenko was a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-z Supernova Search Team that used observations of extragalactic supernovae to discover the accelerating universe. This universal acceleration implies the existence of dark energy and was voted the top science breakthrough of 1998 by Science magazine.^[1]

Filippenko developed and runs the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), a fully robotic telescope which conducts the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS), the most successful nearby supernova search. He is also a member of the Nuker Team which uses the Hubble space telescope to examine supermassive black holes and determined the relationship between a galaxy's central black hole's mass and velocity dispersion.^[2]^[3] He is the most cited astronomer for the ten year period between 1996 and 2006.^[4]

He is also frequently featured on History Channel's "The Universe" programs.

[edit] Honours and awards

Filippenko was awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy in 1992 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. In addition to recognition for his scholarship, he has received numerous honors for his undergraduate teaching, including the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization in 2004.^[5] In 2006 Filippenko was awarded the US Professor of the Year Award, sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and administered by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).^[6]