Alan Boss

Alan Boss

Alan Paul Boss (born July 20, 1951 , in Lakewood, Ohio ) is an American astrophysicist and astronomer .

Life

Since studying at the University of South Florida and the University of California, Santa Barbara , Boss has made a name for himself in the field of solar and planetary system formation and through studies of extrasolar planets . He has written much-cited articles on the formation of gas giants and binary star systems. Boss is currently a staff member at the Carnegie Institution for Science .

At NASA , Boss was chairman of the subcommittee for astrophysics in the " NAC Science Committee " from 2010 to 2012 . He has been a member of NASA's Kepler Mission since 2001 and is a member of the Exoplanet Exploration Program Technology Assessment Committee . Both deal with the recognition and characterization of nearby habitable Earth-like planets .

Boss is a member of numerous scientific academies and societies, including a. of the American Astronomical Society , and serves on permanent research groups.

Awards

2000 became a Boss Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2008 he received a " NASA Group Achievement " for his role in the " Astrobiology Roadmap ".

The asteroid (29137) Alanboss was named after him.

Works

• Alan Boss: Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems . John Wiley & Sons, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-471-18421-8 (HC) ISBN 978-0-471-37911-9 (PB).
• Alan Boss: The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets . Basic Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-465-00936-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Curriculum Vitae on home.dtm.ciw.edu

Web links

• Homepage of Alan P. Boss . dtm.carnegiescience.edu. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
• The Man Who Made Stars and Planets . discovermagazine.com. Retrieved December 14, 2010.