comparing: mike brown & heidi hammel
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Comparing: Mike Brown & Heidi Hammel. Erin Waters. About Mike Brown. Planetary Astronomer Born in 1965, from Huntsville Alabama Lives in California with wife and daughter Received his AB from Princeton in 1987, and MA and PhD from University of California, Berkley - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ERIN WATERS
Comparing:Mike Brown & Heidi
Hammel
About Mike Brown
Planetary AstronomerBorn in 1965, from Huntsville AlabamaLives in California with wife and daughterReceived his AB from Princeton in 1987, and
MA and PhD from University of California, Berkley
Discovery of Eris, work on Kuiper belt, and the atmospheres of planetary satellites
Currently a professor at Caltech University Assistant professor of astronomy at the
California Institute of TechnologyThe man who killed Pluto
http://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/2010/11/
Achievements & Awards
1994 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship
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2001 Urey Prize, Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
2007 Richard P. Feynman Teaching Award
Similarities Differences
Planetary ScientistsUrey Prizehave PhDWork at a science
institute
Different awards
Mike Brown VS. Heidi Hammel
Did gender influence their careers?
Both successful, won many awards, and made great contributions to science
Some statistics…NO