The Chandra X-ray Observatory , named for the late University of Chicago astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The University of Chicago is one of the world's great intellectual communities and centers of learning.
Few institutions are as well-known for advancing knowledge.
The first three Americans to win the Nobel Prize in physics were all University of Chicago faculty members. Seventy-one recipients of the Nobel Prize have been students, researchers or faculty here. The most detailed computer simulations of X-ray bursts ever produced show fireballs piercing the atmosphere of a neutron star, shock waves racing across its surface at supersonic speeds and crashing sheets of lava splashing to heights of 9 miles. Three University of Chicago scientists receive National Medal of Science President Clinton awarded the 1999 National Medal of Science to 12 researchers, including three from the University of Chicago, during a March 14 ceremony at the White House. Doctors overestimate survival times for terminal patients Doctors who refer terminally ill patients to hospice care are systematically overoptimistic, according to a study by University of Chicago researchers published in the Feb. 19 issue of the British Medical Journal.