Alan Boss
Alan P. Boss (born in
planetary scientist
.
Life and career
Educated at the
Terrestrial Magnetism
.
He was married to Catherine Ann Starkie. They had two children together.
Boss was selected to join the
Kepler Mission and the NASA External Independent Readiness Board for the Exoplanet Exploration Program, both charged with the detection and characterization of nearby habitable Earth-like planets
. Boss is a fellow of numerous scientific academies and societies and regularly chairs working groups in his field.
Achievements
Boss received a NASA Group Achievement Award in 2008 for his role in the Astrobiology Roadmap.[2]
Bibliography
- Boss, Alan (1998). Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems. New York: ISBN 978-0-471-18421-8.
- Boss, Alan (2009). The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets. ISBN 978-0-465-00936-7.
External links
- "The Home Page of Alan P. Boss". Carnegie Institution for Science.
- "The Man Who Made Stars and Planets". Discover Magazine.
- Talk of Alan Boss at the Origins 2011 congress
Sources
- ISBN 9780824211134.
- ^ "NAC Science Committee". NASA Science. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
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