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Chung-Pei Michele Ma (; born 1966) is a Taiwanese American astrophysicist and cosmologist. She is a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. She led the team that discovered the largest known black holes in 2011. ==Biography== Chung-Pei Ma was born in Taiwan in 1966. She started playing piano at the age of four. She attended Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School and won the 1983 Taiwan National Violin Competition when she was 16. She then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), receiving her BS in physics in 1987. She earned a PhD in physics from MIT in 1993. She studied theoretical cosmology and particle physics with Alan Guth and Edmund W. Bertschinger, her doctoral advisor. She also took violin classes at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music.〔 From 1993 to 1996 Ma had a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2001 she was an associate and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. While there she won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://astro.berkeley.edu/faculty-profile/chungpei-ma )〕 She became an assistant professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley's Department of Physics in 2001. Ma's research interests are the large-scale structure of the universe, dark matter, and the cosmic microwave background. She led the team that discovered the largest known black holes in 2011. Ma is the scientific editor in cosmology for ''The Astrophysical Journal''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chung-Pei Ma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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