Nicholas B. Suntzeff Russia) and have ancestry in the Udmurt people. Suntzeff is mentioned in the Alan Alda memoir, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned." Nicholas B. Suntzeff Nicholas B. Suntzeff (born November 22, 1952, San Francisco) is an American University Distinguished Professor and holds the Mitchell/Heep/Munnerlyn Chair of Observational Astronomy in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University where he is Director of the Astronomy Program. He is an observational astronomer specializing in cosmology, supernovae, stellar populations, and astronomical instrumentation. With Brian Schmidt he founded the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the
Alan Alda patients being treated for childhood cancer at Saint Jude. Alda and Marlo Thomas had also worked together in the early 1970s on a critically acclaimed children's album entitled "Free to Be You and Me", which featured Alda, Thomas, and a number of other well-known character actors. This project remains one of the earliest public signs of his support of women's rights. In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned". Among other stories, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in La Serena, Chile, for his PBS show