| ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/15 12:46 | Recently, while researching what is known about water on Mars, a name I'd never heard kept popping up in NASA articles. So I checked him out. I was surprised to learn just how much this man has contributed (and continues to contribute) to science. S |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/15 13:34 | Originally Posted By: Gregg1956...Therefore, I decided to create a thread for highlighting scientists and their accomplishments in the field of astronomy...Surprise, surprise! I am SO much in agreement with this, Gregg. I was sorely tempted to make |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/15 14:23 | Originally Posted By: Markopolo |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/16 9:18 | Astronomy Scientist Of The Day: Brian Cox Host of BBC's "Wonders of the Solar System" and "Wonders of the Universe" television series, Dr. Cox is also a member of the ATLAS research team at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He has a PhD. in high-energy |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/16 15:28 | Awesome video. I knew salt was vital to life. I knew salt could kill you. I didn't know salt could blow you up. And this guy played keyboards for two different bands! How cool is that? I just saw a blurb on CNN about astronauts. It seems Congress |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/17 18:28 | Dr. Michael E. Brown Quote:Mike Brown is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and has been on the faculty there since 1996. He specializes in the discovery and study of bodies a |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | washi | 11/11/18 11:21 | Gregg and Mark, I love this thread and am looking forward to more of your mini bios. |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/18 14:52 | Andrea Ghez This is a tip of the hat to women astronomers and women scientists in general. For some unknown reason, women have traditionally been under-represented at the PhD. level in Astronomy, Physics, Engineering, and other of the "hard" sci |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/19 20:59 | Simon Krughoff Never heard of him? I hadn't either, until one day when I was researching an object in the IRAS layer in Google Sky that a new member had asked about. The search to identify this object turned into one of the most challenging (and fun |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/21 10:41 | Saul Perlmutter Joint winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Dr. Saul Perlmutter is an astrophysicist who is pushing forward the boundaries of our knowledge, while at the same time, helping us learn how much we really don't know. That sounds |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/22 9:55 | David Morrison is the senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., where he participates in a variety of research programs in astrobiology -- the study of the living universe. Dr. Morrison ob |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/23 17:43 | Meenakshi Wahdhwa So I was watching "The Universe" on television recently, and one of the guest scientists was this lady explaining about meteorites, and the contribution to the understanding of our Solar System that can be found by learning abou |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/11/25 10:05 | Natalie Batalha Today I'm going to just shut up and let this woman tell you how and why she became a scientist. Watch this video! Natalie Batalha's Bio More about the Kepler Mission |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/26 11:45 | Pete Theisinger Projects like the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), which successfully launched today (see THIS GE thread for a little more information, and THIS NASA/JPL website for the complete MSL mission description), are not the results of the e |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Hill (GEC moderator) | 11/11/26 14:45 | Astronomy Scientists Of The Day Don Yeomans/Lance Benner The next time you hear of a near encounter between Earth and an asteroid, the information about it will most likely come from the Near Earth Orbit Program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Don Ye |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Diane9247 | 11/11/26 22:35 | Quote:...science and scientists take a back seat. It wasn't always this way. ... I am digressing off the topic of astronomers, but some of you in this thread comment on how different things were waaaayyy back when we were kids (for me, it was even f |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/11/28 19:21 | Astronomy Scientist Of the Day Bart J. Bok Dr. Bok was a Dutch American astronomer, educated at Leiden and Groningen universities, receiving his PhD from Groningen. In 1947, he published THIS paper describing the dark clouds which would come to c |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/12/05 17:45 | William Borucki Principal Investigator NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA William Borucki is a space scientist at the NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. He received a master's degree in physics from the University of Wiscon |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/12/08 18:51 | Lynn Rothschild Following the previous ASOD entrant by coincidence, perhaps, I saw Dr. Rothschild on an episode of "The Universe". She is also associated with NASA Ames Research Center, as an "astrobiologist". How cool of a job would that be? Par |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/12/12 11:46 | Michelle Thaller Quote:Michelle Thaller (born in Waukesha, Wisconsin) is an American astronomer and research scientist. Thaller is currently the assistant director for Science Communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1998 to 2009 s |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 11/12/13 20:42 | Clifford V. Johnson, PhD. Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southern California (USC, fight on Trojans!), Dr. Johnson specializes in theoretical physics, with applications in cosmology. According to his USC Faculty profile H |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 11/12/18 16:39 | Dr. Phil Plait "The Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait is a good astronomer. We'll get to why he's called The Bad Astronomer in a bit. First, I'll let him tell you about his early career in his own words: Quote:I spent many years as a research astronomer a |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 12/01/04 10:04 | Adam Block Adam's life-long goal to be an astronomer began at the early age of 4. He specifically selected the University of Arizona to continue his pursuits and graduated with a B.S. in Astronomy and Physics in 1996. He spent the next nine years d |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Markopolo | 12/01/09 10:11 | Alexei Fillipenko (click on the name to go to his webpage) You might recognize Dr. Fillipenko, he's been a featured guest on several popular astronomy/science programs, such as "The Universe", PBS's "NOVA", "Exploring Time", and "Horizon". A seri |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 12/04/06 20:58 | Dr. Fred Whipple No, this isn't the guy who was famous for squeezing toilet paper. He was, according to this article, "one of the last giants of 20th century astronomy." He was well known for his comet research (he discovered six of them) and was |
| Re: ASOD - Astronomy Scientist Of The Day | Gregg1956 | 12/05/06 19:07 | Astronomy Scientist Of the Day Amy Mainzer Okay, okay... I may as well confess: I chose her because she's the hottest scientist I've ever seen. However, she does qualify for ASOD. I just saw her on The Universe, a program on the Science Channel, so |