Sara Seager

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Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist

United States ScientistsBorn 1971 · age 55

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2024Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

2021Magellanic Premium

2020Officer of the Order of Canada

2013MacArthur Fellows Program

2012Sackler Prize for Physics

2011Nature's 10

2011Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2007Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

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Adam RiessAlso won Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

Karl von FrischAlso won Magellanic Premium

Juan Martín MaldacenaAlso won Sackler Prize for Physics

Essam SharafAlso won Nature's 10

Rainer WeissAlso won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Michael E. BrownAlso won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

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Sara Seager is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, though she will return to her alma mater the University of Toronto to join the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) as North Star Distinguished Professor, starting September 1, 2026. Seager is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics, and has been recognized for her research by Popular Science, Discover Magazine, Nature, and TIME Magazine. Seager was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 citing her theoretical work on detecting chemical signatures on exoplanet atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe planetary transits.

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