Sara Seager
Professor, Academic
1971 –
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Who is Sara Seager?
Sara Seager is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics. She has been recognized for this 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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- Born
- 1971
Toronto - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- University of Toronto
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Toronto
- Concord
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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