Geoffrey Marcy
Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954 in St. Clair Shores , Michigan ) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist , best known for his discoveries of exoplanets .
Life
Marcy graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in physics and astronomy in 1976 with summa cum laude . In 1982 he received his PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz . After an assistant at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1982-1984) he became an associate professor in physics and astronomy at San Francisco State University . Since 1999 he has also held a chair in astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley .
He became internationally known for his discoveries of extrasolar planets. He discovered 70 of the first 100 known exoplanets. Marcy also confirmed with R. Paul Butler the discovery of the first exoplanet in a sun-like system (that of 51 Pegasi ) by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (1995).
In 2012 Geoffrey Marcy took over the Watson and Marilyn Alberts Chair in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) , an endowed professorship at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley , whose research topic is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence .
Since 2013 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .
He resigned from his office in October 2015 because of the sexual harassment of students.
Awards
- 2001 Henry Draper Medal
- 2002 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Shaw Prize for Astronomy
- 2010 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publications (selection)
- with RP Butler u. a .: Attaining Doppler precision of 3 M s-1, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 108, 1996, p. 500
- with RP Butler: A planetary companion to 70 Virginis, Astroph. J. Letters, Volume 464, 1996, L 147
- with RP Butler u. a .: Three new “51 Pegasi-type” planets, Astroph. J. Letters, Volume 474, 1997, L 115
- with RP Butler: Detection of extrasolar giant planets, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 36, 1998, pp. 57-97
- with GW Henry u. a .: A transiting “51 Peg-like” planet, Astroph. J. Letters, Volume 529, 1999, L 41
- with RP Butler u. a .: Observed Properties of Exoplanets: Masses, Orbits, and Metallicities , Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, Volume 158, 2005, pp. 24–42, (PDF; 629 kB)
- with RP Butler u. a .: Catalog of nearby exoplanets, Astroph. J., Volume 646, 2006, p. 505
- with DG Koch u. a .: Kepler mission design, realized photometric performance, and early science, Astroph. J. Letters, Volume 713, 2010, L 79
- with WJ Borucki a. a .: Kepler planet-detection mission: introduction and first results, Science, Volume 327, 2010, pp. 977-980
- with WJ Borucki a. a .: Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler. II. Analysis of the first four months of data, Astroph. J., Volume 736, 2011, p. 19
- with NM Batalha u. a .: Planetary candidates observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the first 16 months of data, Astroph. J. Suppl. Series, Volume 204, 2013, p. 23
- with EA Petigura, AW Howard: Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 110, 2013, pp. 19273-19278
- with SB Howell u. a .: The K2 mission: characterization and early results, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 126, 2014, p. 398
Web links
- Website of Geoffrey Marcy (University of California, Berkeley) berkeley.edu
- Interview with Geoff Marcy astris.de
- I bet there are insects on other planets derstandard.at, accessed on March 13, 2014
- Finder of New Worlds nytimes.com, accessed May 17, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet slate.com; Geoff Marcy Appointed to the Alberts Chair ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. berkeley.edu, accessed April 15, 2012
- ↑ 2013 Predictions at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved September 25, 2013
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/news/1.18582
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marcy, Geoffrey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcy, Geoffrey W .; Marcy, Geoff |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Clair Shores |