Sachiko Tsuruta
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Sachiko Tsuruta | |
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| Alma mater | Columbia University |
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| Thesis | Neutron star models (1964) |
Sachiko Tsuruta is a Japanese-born American astrophysicist.
Tsuruta received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 1956. She subsequently went on to Columbia University where she earned a master's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1964.[1] While at Columbia she worked with Hong-Yee Chiu and Alastair G. W. Cameron at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Career
After obtaining her doctorate, Tsuruta worked at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and then beginning in the early 1970s at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center She joined the faculty of the physics department at Montana State University[2] as a visiting professor in 1977 and as a tenure track professor in 1990.[1][3] In 2016, she became a professor emerita and research professor in physics at MSU.[3] Tsuruta has also been a visiting professor at other institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and several universities in Japan.[4]
Awards
In 2015, Tsuruta received the Marcel Grossmann Award "for pioneering the physics of hot neutron stars and their cooling."[5][6] One of the other award recipients that year was Ken'ichi Nomoto,[6] with whom she had collaborated on many papers and conference presentations beginning in 1980.
