Gabriela González

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Gabriela González
“Astronomía con ondas”.jpg
González in July 2018
Born (1965-02-24) 24 February 1965 (age 56)
Cordoba, Argentina
NationalityArgentine[1]
Alma materSyracuse University
National University of Córdoba
Known forGravitational-wave detectors
AwardsFellow of the Institute of Physics (2004)
Edward A. Bouchet Award (2007)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007)
Bruno Rossi Prize (2017)
Petrie Prize Lecture (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsMIT
Pennsylvania State University
Louisiana State University
ThesisBrownian motion of a torsion pendulum damped by internal friction (1995)
Doctoral advisorPeter Saulson

Gabriela Ines González, (born 24 February 1965[2]) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the Louisiana State University and was the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from March 2011 until March 2017.[3]

Career[]

González has published several papers on Brownian motion as a limit to the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors, and has an interest in data analysis for gravitational-wave astronomy.[4]

In February 2016, she was one of five LIGO scientists present for the announcement that the first direct gravitational wave observation had been detected in September 2015.[5][6][7][8][a]

Awards[]

González was elected fellow of the Institute of Physics (2004), the American Physical Society (2007), and the American Astronomical Society (2020).[9]

She won the Bouchet Award in 2007, the Bruno Rossi Prize in 2017, the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, and the Petrie Prize Lecture in 2019.[10][11]

González was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[12][13]

Personal life[]

González is married to Jorge Pullin, the Horace Hearne Chair in theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University.[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Other physicists present for the announcement were David Reitze, Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and France A. Córdova.

References[]

  1. ^ Bär, Nora (11 February 2016). "Quién es Gabriela González, la argentina que confirmó la teoría de Einstein". La Nación. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  2. ^ Losada, Samuel (2016-12-02). "Estamos todos como locos... Einstein estaría muy contento". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Enslin, Rob (January 4, 2019). "Physicist Gabriela González G'95 Reveals How Syracuse Prepared Her to Make Science History". SU News. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Gabriela González, PhD". Louisiana State University. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  5. ^ Twilley, Nicola. "Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  6. ^ Abbott, B.P.; et al. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6): 061102. arXiv:1602.03837. Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116f1102A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. PMID 26918975.
  7. ^ Naeye, Robert (11 February 2016). "Gravitational Wave Detection Heralds New Era of Science". Sky and Telescope. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  8. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide; Witze, Alexandra (11 February 2016). "Einstein's gravitational waves found at last". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19361. S2CID 182916902. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  9. ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Award for Scientific Discovery". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  11. ^ "Edward A. Bouchet Award". American Physical Society. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
  12. ^ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. May 2, 2017.
  13. ^ Satake, Alison (April 12, 2017). "LSU's Gabriela González Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". LSU Media Center. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
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