Daniela Calzetti
Daniela Calzetti is an Italian-American astronomer known for her research on cosmic dust, star formation, and galaxy formation and evolution, and in particular for the Calzetti dust extinction law, an estimate for how much information about distant galaxies has been obscured by cosmic dust. She is a professor of astronomy and head of the astronomy department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and principal investigator of the Legacy ExtraGalactic Ultraviolet Survey project of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Daniela Calzetti | |
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| Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome |
| Known for | Calzetti dust extinction law |
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| Fields | Astronomy |
| Thesis | Large-Scale Distribution of Galaxies and Clusters: The Scale of Inhomogeneity (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Remo Ruffini |
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