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Geoffrey Marcy

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American astronomer

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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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2013Cozzarelli Prize
2013Clarivate Citation Laureates
2005Shaw Prize
2005The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
2003NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
2002Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
2001Henry Draper Medal
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization

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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. 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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Born 1954 · age 71
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