Won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2024).
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Sara Seager
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 at…
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science · Canadian astronomer · astronomer · physicist · astrophysicist · university teacher · biologist · also Sara Seager, S. Seager, Seager
Born 21 July 1971 · Q7421764
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2024· 2 entries
Seager was awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Magellanic Premium (2021).
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2020· 4 entries
Seager appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast (#116)
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Awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (2020).
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Was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada
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Seager led a team proposing a mission Venus Life Finder, a small spacecraft to investigate the possibility of life in the atmosphere of Venus
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2017· 1 entry
And successfully operated until its orbital decay on April 24, 2020
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (2013).
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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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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Sackler Prize for Physics (2012).
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And elected to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada as an honorary member in 2013
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011).
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Awarded Nature's 10 (2011).
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (2007).
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For developing "fundamental techniques for understanding, analyzing, and finding the atmospheres of extrasolar planets," and the 2004 Harvard Book Prize in Astronomy
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1971· 1 entry
Born 1971-07-21.
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