Space Telescope Science Institute (1983-1989) Neta Bahcall (Hebrew: נטע אסף בקל; born 1942) is an Israeli[1] astrophysicist and cosmologist specializing in dark matter, the structure of the universe, quasars, and the formation of galaxies.

The same year she received her Ph.D., she began working at Princeton University, where she has been a full-time astrophysics professor since 1989.

Bahcall has been a longtime member of and vice president of the American Astronomical Society from 1995 to 1998.

Neta was married to John Bahcall, who was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and also an astrophysicist, until his death in 2005.

I combine the science that I do with the religion's question about God in the sense that all the laws of physics that created the Universe and the enormous amount of beauty in the Universe represent the connection to God.