Some of his discoveries have been featured in the news media [1][2] He was awarded the Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society in 2010.
Dr. Pennypacker has spent much of his career as a research astrophysicist, receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978.
His principal research was the studying of supernovae and the building of techniques for their automated discovery.
He shared the 2007 Gruber Prize in Cosmology[3] and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics[4] for the Supernova Cosmology Project's discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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