Jean Peck Krisch (born 1939)[1] is an American theoretical cosmologist and astrophysicist whose research concerns the theory of general relativity and the behavior of relativistic stars. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita of Physics at the University of Michigan.[2]
Education and career
editKrisch graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1960 and completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1965.[2] Her dissertation was A Calculation of the Baryon – Vector Meson Mixing Parameters.[3]
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.[2]
Recognition
editKrisch was president of the council of the Society of Physics Students for 1991–1993, and president of Sigma Pi Sigma, a US honor society for physics, for 1994–1996. She became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998,[2] "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."[4]
References
edit- ^ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2020-06-13
- ^ a b c d "Memoir: Jean P. Krisch", Regents' Proceedings, University of Michigan Faculty History Project, 2017, retrieved 2020-06-13
- ^ Krisch, Jean Peck (1965), A Calculation of the Baryon – Vector Meson Mixing Parameters, Cornell University, Bibcode:1965PhDT........11K – via Astrophysics Data System
- ^ APS Fellows Nominated by FEd: 1998, American Physical Society Forum on Education, retrieved 2020-06-13