Peter Galison is the director of the Black Hole Initiative and the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Max Planck Prize, and the Pfizer Prize. As a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, he shared in the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the capture of the first image of the supermassive black hole, M87.
