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Krawczynski wins grant from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

November 22, 2021
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Henric Krawczynski, the Wayman Crow Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $41,255 award from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for research on microlensing a quasar’s accretion disk.


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