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Italian physicist
Michele Vallisneri
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Born
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1973-07-15
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July 15, 1973
(age 50)
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Nationality
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Alma mater
| California Institute of Technology
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Scientific career
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Fields
| Physics
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Institutions
| California Institute of Technology
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Michele Vallisneri
(born July 15, 1973) is an Italian physicist, currently at
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
,
California Institute of Technology
and an Elected Fellow of the
American Physical Society
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He received his Ph.D. degree from the
California Institute of Technology
in 2002, with a doctoral thesis on "Modeling and detecting gravitational waves from compact stellar objects,"
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under the supervision of relativist
Kip Thorne
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In 2017 he was awarded the
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
for "outstanding contributions to ground- and space-based detection of gravitational waves, critical to the nascent field of observational
gravitational-wave astronomy
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