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Christopher Walter

Christopher Walter

Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
120 Science Drive, Office 271, Durham, NC 27708

Academic Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship

National John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation · 2023 More about this award

Fellow of the American Physical Society

International APS · October 2017

2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

International Breakthrough Prize · December 2015

NSF Career Award

National National Science Foundation · June 2009

News Items

Published July 8, 2026
Coming Soon: Exploding Stars and Far-Away Galaxies
Published June 26, 2025
Duke Cosmologists Celebrate the First Images of the Vera Rubin Observatory