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News Release 09-037
NSF Announces 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award Recipient
Harvard Astronomer David Charbonneau to be honored in May of this International Year of Astronomy
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The 2009 Alan T. Waterman Awardee David Charbonneau is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. His research focuses on the development of novel techniques for the detection and characterization of planets orbiting nearby, Sun-like stars. These distant worlds are called exoplanets.
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Alan T. Waterman Award Medal.
Credit: National Science Foundation
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