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World Ranking
22
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding research in studying the gravitational instability theory of structure formation in the Universe and its confrontation with experimental data

Overview

David H. Weinberg is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, as well as astronomy and astrophysical research. Specific themes in their research include galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena, astrophysics and star formation studies, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astro and planetary science, and cosmology and gravitation theories.

Recent publications by David H. Weinberg include:

  • The DESI Bright Galaxy Survey: Final Target Selection, Design, and Validation (2023) - The Astronomical Journal
  • APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of the Massive Milky Way Satellites (2021) - The Astrophysical Journal
  • Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey (2023) - The Astrophysical Journal
  • The chemical characterization of halo substructure in the Milky Way based on APOGEE (2022) - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Poor Old Heart of the Milky Way (2022) - The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Weinberg include James W. Johnson, Emily J. Griffith, Sten Hasselquist, Hao-Yi Wu, and Fiorenzo Vincenzo.

The scientist's work has been published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Physical Review D
  • The Astronomical Journal

David H. Weinberg has been recognized through several awards, including the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics awarded by the American Astronomical Society in 2021. They were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2000, with a citation highlighting outstanding research on the gravitational instability theory of structure formation in the Universe and its comparison with experimental data.

Best Publications

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    D. G. York

  • Review of Particle Physics

    K. A. Olive;K. Agashe;C. Amsler;M. Antonelli

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

    Donald G. York;J. Adelman;John E. Anderson;Scott F. Anderson

  • APS : Review of Particle Physics, 2018-2019

    M Tanabashi;P Richardson;A Bettini;A Vogt

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Oxford University Press : Review of Particle Physics, 2020-2021

    P A Zyla;P Richardson;O Zenin;A Bettini

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

    C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

  • How do galaxies get their gas

    Dušan Kereš;Neal Katz;David H. Weinberg;Romeel Davé

  • Stellar Masses and Star Formation Histories for 10^5 Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D.M. White;Stephane Charlot

  • The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

    Chris Stoughton;Robert H. Lupton;Mariangela Bernardi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

    Shadab Alam;Metin Ata;Stephen Bailey;Florian Beutler

  • Stellar masses and star formation histories for 105 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Guinevere Kauffmann;Timothy M. Heckman;Simon D. M. White;Stéphane Charlot;Stéphane Charlot

  • Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

    Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg;Robert H. Lupton;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

Frequent Co-Authors

Neal Katz
Neal Katz University of Massachusetts Amherst
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Daniel J. Eisenstein
Daniel J. Eisenstein Harvard University
Romeel Davé
Romeel Davé University of Edinburgh
David J. Schlegel
David J. Schlegel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jordi Miralda-Escudé
Jordi Miralda-Escudé University of Barcelona
Idit Zehavi
Idit Zehavi Case Western Reserve University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Michael R. Blanton
Michael R. Blanton New York University
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma

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