- They have joined hands to design the back-end instruments and study possible science prospects of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project.
- The TMT is considered to be extremely large telescope (ELT) which will be installed at Maunakea on the island of Hawaii.
- Basically, the TMT project is an international collaborative project of CalTech, Universities of California, Canada, Japan, China, and India.
- This project aims to revolutionize the understanding of the universe and the enigmas in it.
- Name of Indian astronomers who collaborated with Prof. Andrea Ghez are: Dr Annapurni Subramanium, Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and Dr Shashi Bhushan Pandey, a scientist at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES).
Question:
a. Jennifer Doudna
b. Roger Penrose
c. Prof.Andrea Ghez
d. Michael Houghton
