Bradley Elliott Schaefer is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Louisiana State University.
He has also researched the dwarf planet Pluto with the aim of understanding the atmospheric variability of the system.
[3][4] In 2005, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, California, Schaefer reported on a potential link between the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus and a sculpture called The Farnese Atlas, created in the 2nd century, and thus a potential source for antique astronomy.
Only a couple of months later, Dennis Duke published a counter-opinion proving Schaefer's hypothesis wrong.
[9] In 2015, for this discovery of dark energy, Schaefer again won a small share of the $3,000,000 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.