Andrew Chael
| Andrew Chael | |
|---|---|
| Born | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 🏡 Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Carleton College Harvard University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Black Hole image |
| 🌐 Website | achael |
Andrew Chael (born 1990/1991)[1] is an American astrophysicist and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope imaging working group and team that created the first simulated image of a black hole.
Early life and education[edit]
Chael grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he attended Manzano High School.[2][3] He received a bachelor in physics from Carleton College in 2013.[4][3] He is a graduate student at Harvard University, where he is part of the Black Hole Initiative, and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team.[5][6][7]
His research focuses on the simulation and imaging of black holes Sgr A* and M87.[5]
Career[edit]
In 2019 he became an Einstein fellow on the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program.[8] His work as a fellow has focused on flaring black holes using a combination of simulations and images obtained by the EHT.[3] He helped developed software to piece together using data collected within the EHT project to create the first-ever image of a black hole[9][10] that simulates what scientists believe the telescope will collect to create the simulation of M87, one of the black holes the EHT has been looking at.[5]
After the release of the image, Katie Bouman, who developed one of the algorithms used in the black hole image, and a PBS article PBS that featured Bouman,[11] the story went viral.[1][12]
In response, a number of posts on Reddit and Twitter claimed Chael was the main contributor of the project and Bouman was being pushed forward by an agenda-driven media.[10][1][13] Chael repeatedly refuted the claims in media interviews and on social media, calling them "sexist" on a Twitter thread that also went viral.[1][10][13] He debunked the posts using lines of code changed in the git repository to measure contributions, saying that many such lines tracked were the result of him updating model data.[14] He added that it "was ironic that they chose me",[13] since, as a gay man, he was part of what he called an "underrepresented" minority in STEM.[13][1] Chael further set the record straight by telling People magazine, “Our papers used three independent imaging software libraries (including one developed by my friend @sparse_k). While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software."[15]
Awards[edit]
In 2019, Chael won the Eric Keto Prize for the best doctorate thesis in astrophysics at Harvard.[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Elfrink, Tim (12 April 2019). "Trolls hijacked a scientist's image to attack Katie Bouman. They picked the wrong astrophysicist". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ↑ Bade, Brittany (2019-04-13). "Albuquerque native helps create first-ever image of black hole". KRQE. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "2019 NHFP Fellows". STScI. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ↑ Weitz, Drew. "Andrew Chael Comps Talk". Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Andrew Chael". bhi.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ Wednesday, Nathaniel Scharping | Published:; April 3; 2019. "Here's what scientists think their first picture of a black hole migh". Astronomy magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ "Harvard scientists lead team revealing black hole". Harvard Gazette. 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ↑ "2019 NHFP Fellows". Space Telescope Science Institute.
- ↑ Aut, Grant Andrew author (2019-04-11). "What it took to capture a black hole". doi:10.1063/PT.6.1.20190411a.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 CNN, Michelle Lou and Saeed Ahmed. "To undermine Katherine Bouman's role in the black hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero -- until he fought back". CNN. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ Stein, Vicky (11 April 2019). "Katie Bouman 'hardly knew what a black hole was.' Her algorithm helped us see one". PBS NewsHour.
- ↑ Mervosh, Sarah (2019-04-11). "How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "Black Hole Scientist Defends Female Colleague Against Sexist Trolls". HuffPost UK. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ↑ Chael, Andrew (11 April 2019). "(Also I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored)". @thisgreyspirit. Twitter. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ↑ Hahn, Jason Duaine (April 12, 2019). "Male Scientist Claps Back at Trolls Who Tried to Discredit Female Colleague's Role in Black Hole Photo". PEOPLE.com.
- ↑ "Congratulations to Andrew Chael". bhi.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
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