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Date of Birth
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25-July-1958
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Place of Birth
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Oakland
(California, United States of America, Area code 510)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Alex Filippenko, Prof Alexei Filippenko, Prof Alex Filippenko
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Profession
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Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Professor
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Alexei Vladimir Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, CA. 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. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths.
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