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Idit Zehavi
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| עדית זהבי | |
| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Chicago |
| Occupation | astrophysicist, astronomer |
| Employer | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory University of Arizona Case Western Reserve University |
Idit Zehavi (Hebrew: עדית זהבי) was born in 1969. She is an Israeli astrophysicist and researcher. An astrophysicist studies space and the universe.
Idit Zehavi found something unusual when mapping the universe. This discovery helped scientists understand how the universe is growing. She is also part of a big project called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
About Idit Zehavi
Idit Zehavi was born in Israel in 1969. She studied in Jerusalem. In 1998, she earned her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A PhD is a very high university degree.
In the same year, she was studying how the universe expands. She and another scientist, Avishai Dekel, noticed something strange. They saw that the part of the universe where Earth is located seemed to be expanding faster. This was different from the rest of the universe. Another scientist, Adam Riess, also noticed this on his own.
Soon after, Zehavi moved to the United States. She continued her studies at the University of Chicago. There, she researched how galaxy clustering works. Galaxy clustering is about how galaxies group together in space. She also joined research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Discoveries and Research
In 2004, Idit Zehavi moved to the University of Arizona. She kept working on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This project creates detailed maps of the universe.
In 2005, she helped with research led by Daniel Eisenstein. They found "cosmic ripples." These ripples are like echoes from the early universe. Finding them helped confirm a major theory about how the universe began.
In 2006, she became a professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2009, she received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. This grant helped her continue her work with the SDSS. She expanded her research on galaxy clustering to look at even larger parts of the universe.
Idit Zehavi is known as one of the world's most highly cited scientists. This means many other scientists refer to her work in their own research.
See also
- In Spanish: Idit Zehavi para niños
