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Distinguished astronomer Wendy Freedman will deliver this year's Anna I. McPherson Lecture聽in Physics, entitled "New Windows on the Cosmos".

Prof. Freedman is a renowned astronomer who was instrumental in precisely measuring the Hubble constant and determining the age of the universe. She is the former director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena. She initiated the Giant Magellan Telescope project and served as chair of its board of directors from the project's inception in 2003 until 2015. In 2014 she joined the faculty of the University of Chicago as the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

About the Anna I. McPherson Lecture

The annual was established in honour of Anna Isobel McPherson, a member of the 捆绑SM社区 physics faculty from 1940 until her death in 1979. Over her long association with the Department of Physics, Anna McPherson made important contributions in teaching, research,聽and counselling, helping and teaching a very large number of students. The McPherson lecture series was established to acknowledge her outstanding generosity and her many valued academic contributions. The mandate of these lectures is to bring a distinguished physicist to 捆绑SM社区 each year to give two lectures, one of which is a lecture for the general public.