Stacy McGaugh (born January 11, 1964) is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His fields of specialty include low surface brightness galaxies, galaxy formation and evolution,McGaugh, S.S. (1998) "How Galaxies Don't Form" tests of dark matter and alternative hypotheses, and measurements of cosmological parameters.
Education and career McGaugh was an undergraduate student at MIT (S.B. 1985) and a graduate student at Princeton and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1992). He held postdoctoral appointments at Cambridge University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Rutgers University before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland in 1998. He moved to Case Western in 2012.
Research McGaugh has worked on extragalactic astronomy, including on elemental abundances and galactic chemical evolution in [H II region]]s, and on low surface brightness galaxies and kinematics of disk galaxies.
See also Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Dark matter Modified Newtonian dynamics
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External links
Stacy McGaugh's home page The MOND pages Triton Station — A Blog About the Science and Sociology of Cosmology and Dark Matter