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3 unusual facts about Geoffrey Marcy


Debra Fischer

She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets.

Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey W. Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer, who is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered, along with R. Paul Butler and Debra Fischer.

Marcy confirmed Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz's discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star—51 Pegasi b.



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