He leaves a wife, three children and a sister Linda Jellison.
Tom Walas, My Cousin Bob
Robert A. Schommer (December 9, 1946 – December 12, 2001) was an American observational astronomer. He was a professor at the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and later a project scientist for the U.S. office of the Gemini Observatory Project at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. He was known for his wide range of research interests, from stellar populations to cosmology.
Major Award for Dark Energy Discovery | NOAO astronomers Chris Smith and Tom Matheson, and former scientific staff members Nicholas Suntzeff, Mark Phillips and Robert Schommer, have been awarded the prestigious Gruber Cosmology Prize as contributors to two scientific teams who simultaneously discovered the "crazy" phenomenon of the accelerating expansion of the Universe, known since by the name dark energy.
He leaves a wife, three children and a sister Linda Jellison.
Tom Walas, My Cousin Bob
Robert A. Schommer (December 9, 1946 – December 12, 2001) was an American observational astronomer. He was a professor at the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and later a project scientist for the U.S. office of the Gemini Observatory Project at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. He was known for his wide range of research interests, from stellar populations to cosmology.
Major Award for Dark Energy Discovery | NOAO astronomers Chris Smith and Tom Matheson, and former scientific staff members Nicholas Suntzeff, Mark Phillips and Robert Schommer, have been awarded the prestigious Gruber Cosmology Prize as contributors to two scientific teams who simultaneously discovered the "crazy" phenomenon of the accelerating expansion of the Universe, known since by the name dark energy.
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