Professor Emeritus
Director, Dark Energy Survey
Assistant Chair for Academic Affairs (2015-2020)
- Address:
- ERC 533
- Phone:
- 773-702-3335
- Email:
- rich@astro.uchicago.edu
Background
Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, 1978
Affiliation
Fermilab
Projects
Dark Energy Survey (DES)
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
News & Highlights
- “Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into expansion of universe”, UChicago News, January 18, 2024
- The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has selected Richard G. Kron’s collaborative research project for 2023–2024, February 14, 2023
- Richard Kron named AAS Fellow, January 5, 2022
- “Dark Energy Survey releases most precise look yet at the universe’s evolution”, UChicago News, June 1, 2021
- “A UChicago astronomer’s decades-long quest to map millions of stars”, by Natalie Lund, UChicago News, May 22, 2021
- “Synergies and a supernova”, by Sherry Byrne, UChicago Library News, February 24, 2021
- Richard Kron, Sloan Digital Sky Survey co-founder, retires, February 9, 2021
- Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of nearly 700 million astronomical objects to the public, January 14, 2021
- Orion Nebula, captured in 1901 by American astronomer George Ritchey, August 20, 2019