Christopher Stubbs
American physicist
Christopher Stubbs (born March 12, 1958) is an experimental physicist on the faculty at Harvard University in both the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy. He is the former Dean of Science at Harvard University and a former chair of Harvard's Department of Physics.
Biography
Stubbs received an International Baccalaureate degree from Iranzamin International School in Tehran in 1975 and received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Virginia in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Washington in 1988 working with Professor Eric Adelberger on experimental tests of gravity. His Ph.D. thesis ruled out the idea of a fifth force, a proposed long range modification of gravity.
Ongoing projects
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
Probing dark energy with galaxy clusters.
Precise calibration of astronomical instruments.
Builder status on the PanSTARRS Project.
Testing foundations of gravity with lunar laser ranging, the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation
Arms Control.
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