Adrian Price-Whelan

Adrian Price-Whelan is an American astronomer and researcher who is known for discovering the star cluster Price-Whelan 1. He is the son of Michael Whelan.

Education

Price-Whelan holds a bachelor's degree in physics from New York University and master's and doctoral degrees in astronomy from Columbia University in the city of New York.

Career

Price-Whelan is currently a research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York. He has expertise in computational analysis, analyzing chemical data for large numbers of stars in the Milky Way and interpretation of kinematics.