R. Paul Butler
Robert Paul Butler (* 1960 in San Diego , California ) is an American astronomer who searches for exoplanets . He is co-discoverer of more than half of the exoplanets found by 2006.
Paul Butler was born to Donal A. Butler and Karen I. Butler. Butler received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics (1985) and Chemistry (1986) and a Masters of Science in Physics from San Francisco State University in 1989 , with a master's thesis with Geoffrey Marcy . He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993 with a PhD . The main aim of his studies was the design of a highly sensitive spectrograph for the detection of exoplanets by detecting changes in the radial velocity of their parent stars. From 1993 to 1997 he was a scientist at San Francisco State University and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1997 to 1999 he was an astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory . Since 1999 he has been a research fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington .
Awards
- 1997 Bioastronomy Medal ( International Astronomical Union )
- 1998 Bernard Oliver Memorial Award (Extrasolar Planetary Foundation)
- 2001 Henry Draper Medal ( National Academy of Sciences )
- 2002 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
- 2011 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
literature
- KED: Marcy, Geoffrey W. , and Butler R. Paul . In: Current Biography . Wilson, New York and Dublin 2002, pp. 358–362, ISBN 0-8242-1017-4 , ISSN 0084-9499 (with portrait photo)
Web links
- Paul Butler at the University of California, Berkeley ( March 23, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Dr. R. Paul Butler
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Butler, R. Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Butler, Robert Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California |