Birth Name:

Alexei Vladimir Filippenko

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Jul 25, 1958

Time of Birth:

12:36 AM

Place of Birth:

Oakland, California, United States

Age:

66

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

1°

Leo

52'

Moon

24°

Sco

19'

Asc

7°

Tau

52'

MC

22°

Cap

26'

About Alex Filippenko

Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko (/fɪlɪˈpɛnkoʊ/; born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow. He was a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley and was subsequently appointed to a faculty position at the same institution. He was later named a Miller Research Professor for Spring 1996 and Spring 2005. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• UC Berkeley Astronomy biography

• UC Berkeley Astronomy website

• Alex Filippenko on IMDb

• Introduction to General Astronomy – UC Berkeley Webcast

• Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe – UC Berkeley Webcast

• Black Holes, Exploding Stars, and the Runaway Universe: A Life in Science (his talk in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures in 2018)

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Alex Filippenko: Sun 1 Leo, Moon 24 Scorpio, Mercury 28 Leo, Venus 3 Cancer, Mars 2 Taurus, Jupiter 23 Libra, Saturn 19 Sagittarius, Uranus 11 Leo, Neptune 2 Scorpio, Pluto 1 Virgo, Asc 7 Taurus, Mc 22 Capricorn, Moon Sextile Midheaven, Sun Square Neptune, Moon Square Mercury, Mercury Sextile Neptune, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Sun Square Mars, Sun Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Sun Semi Sextile Pluto, Moon Semi Sextile Jupiter, Mercury Trine Mars, Mercury Conjunct Pluto, Venus Sextile Mars, Venus Trine Neptune, Venus Sextile Pluto, Mars Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Mars Opposition Neptune, Mars Trine Pluto, Mars Conjunct Ascendant, Jupiter Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Square Midheaven, Saturn Semi Square Neptune, Uranus Square Ascendant, Neptune Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Alex Filippenko: Living people, American astronomers, California Institute of Technology alumni, Scientists from California, University of California, California, Santa Barbara alumni, Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 1958 births, July 25 births, American astrophysicists, 21st-century astronomers, People from Oakland, American people of Ukrainian descent, Berkeley faculty

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