51 Pegasi b
Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff Marcy. He was later found guilty of having harassed many of his students between
Bora Zivkovic
This exchange made me squirm: Every once in a while I feel like I should be more out so I'm like "oh btw Twitter I'm bi" and Twitter goes "ok wtvr" but anyway hello again — Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) May 29, 2017 Wow
Geoff Marcy
About a week go, NASA announced the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet, and all I could do was think of the amazing Geoff Marcy. When it comes to exoplanet astronomy and the hunt for these objects, Marcy is THE guy (The Atlantic compared his contributions to