page_title: Jerome Kristian
hierarchical_section_title: Jerome Kristian
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Jerome Kristian from the 1952 yearbook issue of the Shimer College Record.
context_page_description: Jerome "Jerry" Kristian was a theoretical and observational cosmologist, and the first to provide observational evidence of quasar host galaxies.
  Kristian began his career in theoretical cosmology but transitioned into observation while working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s. He helped to pioneer the observational study of pulsars and quasars and participated in the development of the Hubble Space Telescope. He was the first to provide observational support for the now widely accepted theory that quasars are supermassive black holes at the center of distant galaxies.
context_section_description: Jerome "Jerry" Kristian (born June 5, 1933 in Milwaukee, d. June 22, 1996 in Ventura County, California) was a theoretical and observational cosmologist, and the first to provide observational evidence of quasar host galaxies.
  Kristian began his career in theoretical cosmology but transitioned into observation while working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in the 1960s and 1970s.  He helped to pioneer the observational study of pulsars and quasars and participated in the development of the Hubble Space Telescope.  He was the first to provide observational support for the now widely accepted theory that quasars are supermassive black holes at the center of distant galaxies.
caption: Jerome Kristian in 1952.
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