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Kyongae Chang

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Kyongae Chang (Korean장경애, born September 5, 1946) is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens.

Chang was born in Seoul. She worked as a research associate on astrometric binaries with Professors van de Kamp and Heintz at Sproul Observatory from 1969 till 1971 before obtaining a Dr. rer. nat. from Hamburg University with her work on the Chang-Refsdal lens in 1979.

She returned to Korea in 1985 and became a professor at Cheongju University.