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Marc Davis

American astronomer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1947 · age 79

Marc Davis is an American professor of astronomy and physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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A life in dates

2011Gruber Prize in CosmologyAward2006Dannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsAward1982Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in AstronomyAward1947Born8 September 1947

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Awards

Gruber Prize in Cosmology2011
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics2006
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy1982
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

About this person

Davis received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, his PhD from Princeton University in 1973 and has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992). He taught for a year at Princeton, 1973-1974, then was on the astronomy faculty at Harvard University from 1975 to 1981. Since 1981, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
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Dates
Born 1947 · age 79