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Learn about David Latham, a senior astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the director of science for TESS, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Find out his background, projects, challenges, inspirations, and fun facts.
May 30, 2019 · It was March 1988, and astronomer David Latham was working into the night, puzzling over an odd result from an experimental instrument at Harvard’s Oak Ridge Observatory in Massachusetts. At the time, planets around other stars were an unproven – if thrilling – idea.
Sir David Nicholas Ramsay Latham, PC (born 18 September 1942) is a retired British judge who was Lord Justice of Appeal and Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales. Latham is the son of Robert Latham (1912–1995), editor of the diary of Samuel Pepys, and his first wife, Eileen Ramsay (d. 1969
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Nov 12, 2019 · The web page discusses the candidates for the first exoplanet discovery and the criteria for the Nobel Prize in Physics. It does not mention David Latham, who is a co-discoverer of the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
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David Latham is a senior astronomer and lecturer at the Department of Astronomy of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He specializes in exoplanet research, using radial-velocity surveys, space missions and spectrographs to detect, confirm and characterize transiting planets.
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Oct 30, 2013 · “This planet is a complete mystery,” said astronomer David Latham of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). “We don’t know how it formed or how it got to where it is today. What we do know is that it’s not going to last forever.”
Latham, David W. Senior Astronomer. Searches for and characterization of extrasolar planets; the formation and early history of the Milky Way Galaxy; the frequency and orbital characteristics of binaries in various stellar populations. Background And Education. Publications. Contact. Background And Education. Education And Training.
