Nelson Christensen (Physics) pioneered procedures to analyze WMAP data.

Nelson Christensen, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has pioneered many of the procedures used in analyzing Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data. Using the WMAP satellite, researchers have announced numerous exciting new results concerning the overall structure, age, and future fate of the universe. Christensen’s work was acknowledged as having become “the standard tool for analyses . . . and the backbone of analysis techniques.”