Doug Rich (born 1948, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American amateur astronomer, supernova discoverer, and team leader for the Eagle Hill Supernova Search Project.
 He is also a former ZYGO optician and telescope maker and now lives in Hampden, Maine, USA.
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 In 1999 he established Rich Observatory and has since discovered 26 extragalactic supernovae.
SN 2005ap was an extremely energetic type Ic supernova in the galaxy SDSS J130115.12+274327.5.
 With a peak absolute magnitude of around −22.7, it is the brightest supernova yet recorded, twice as bright as the previous record holder, SN 2006gy.
 It was initially classified as type II-L, but later revised to type Ic.
 It was discovered on 3 March 2005 on unfiltered optical images taken with the 0.45 m ROTSE-IIIb (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) telescope, which is located at the McDonald observatory in West Texas, by Robert Quimby as part of the Texas Supernova Search that also discovered SN 2006gy.
 Although it was discovered before SN 2006gy it was not recognised as being brighter until October 2007.
 As it occurred 4.7 billion light years from Earth it was not visible to the naked eye.
Bruno Leibundgut (* 1.
 April 1960 ) is a Swiss astronomer born in Basel.
 He has become well known especially because of discoveries regarding the Supernova Cosmology.
 He was a member of the High-z Supernova Search Team and participated in the establishing of the Very Large Telescope.
Mark M. Phillips (born March 31, 1951) is an American astronomer who works on the observational studies of all classes of supernovae.
 He has worked on SN 1986G, SN 1987A, the Calán/Tololo Supernova Survey, the High-Z Supernova Search Team, and the Phillips relationship.
 This relationship has allowed the use of Type Ia supernovae as standard candles, leading to the precise measurements of the Hubble constant H and the deceleration parameter q, the latter implying the existence of dark energy or a cosmological constant in the Universe.
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU), incorporates the Anglo-Australian Telescope along with a collection of other telescopes owned by the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, and other institutions.
 The observatory is situated 1165 m above sea level in the Warrumbungle National Park on Mount Woorat, also known as Siding Spring Mountain.
 Siding Spring Observatory is owned by the Australian National University (ANU) and is part of the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories research school.
Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program.
 He is an observational astronomer specializing in cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations, and astronomical instrumentation.
 With Brian Schmidt he founded the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 to Schmidt and Adam Riess.
The Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra is a major centre for lexicographical research in Australia.
 It is jointly funded by the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.
Brian Paul Schmidt {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'AC, FRS, FAA', '4': "} (born on 24 February 1967 in Missoula, Montana) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU).
 He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
 He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
 He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012.
 Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, making him the only Montana-born Nobel laureate.
The High-Z Supernova Search Team was an international cosmology collaboration which used Type Ia supernovae to chart the expansion of the universe.
 The team was formed in 1994 by Brian P. Schmidt, then a post-doctoral research associate at Harvard University, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff, a staff astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.
 The original team first proposed for the research on September 29, 1994 in a proposal called "A Pilot Project to Search for Distant Type Ia Supernova" to the CTIO Inter-American Observatory.
 The original team as co-listed on the first observing proposal was: Nicholas Suntzeff (PI); Brian Schmidt (Co-I); (other Co-Is) R. Chris Smith, Robert Schommer, Mark M. Phillips, Mario Hamuy, Roberto Aviles, Jose Maza, Adam Riess, Robert Kirshner, Jason Spiromilio, and Bruno Leibundgut.
 The original project was awarded four nights of telescope time on the CTIO Victor M. Blanco Telescope on the nights of February 25, 1995, and March 6, 24, and 29, 1995.
 The pilot project led to the discovery of supernova SN1995Y.
 In 1995, the HZT elected Brian P. Schmidt of the Mount Stromlo Observatory which is part of the Australian National University to manage the team.
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2011.
 One half of it was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, head of the Supernova Cosmology Product at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the other half was awarded to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess, both leaders of the High-Z Supernova Team.
 Their prize was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."

Question: What is the birthdate of this Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, who was also part of the High-Z Supernova Search Team?
Answer: 24 February 1967