Geoffrey Marcy
American astronomer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1954 · age 72
Geoffrey William Marcy is an American astronomer. He was an early influence in the field of exoplanet detection, discovery, and characterization. Marcy was a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at San Francisco State University.
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Marcy and his research teams discovered many extrasolar planets, including 70 out of the first 100 known exoplanets and also the first planetary system around a Sun-like star, Upsilon Andromedae. Marcy was a co-investigator on the NASA Kepler space telescope mission. His collaborators have included R. Paul Butler, Debra Fischer and Steven S. Vogt, Jason Wright, Andrew Howard, Katie Peek, John Johnson, Erik Petigura, Lauren Weiss, Lea Hirsch and the Kepler Science Team. Following an investigation for sexual harassment in 2015, Marcy resigned his position at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The same award as Geoffrey
Aleksander WolszczanBoth received Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
Alexei FilippenkoBoth received Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
Ludvig FaddeevBoth received Shaw Prize
Edward C. StoneBoth received The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Neil GehrelsBoth received Henry Draper Medal
Chris LintottBoth received Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize