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David Clifford Jewitt

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British astronomer

United States ScientistsBorn 1958 · age 68

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David Clifford Jewitt is an astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies.

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2012Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

2012The Shaw Prize in Astronomy

2005Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Reinhard GenzelAlso won The Shaw Prize in Astronomy

Kazutoshi MoriAlso won Shaw Prize

Andrei LindeAlso won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Ewine van DishoeckAlso won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics Vladimir DrinfeldAlso won Shaw Prize

Jane LuuAlso won The Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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David Clifford Jewitt is an astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the Director of the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. He is best known for being the first person to discover a body beyond Pluto and Charon in the Kuiper belt.

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