[ATMoB-discuss] Dr Mike Brown, CalTech, discoverer of Eris/Xena/Planet X ... youngguy or not?

[Michael Brown]

You mean he comes up before me on Google???

Actually, I spoke to him after his talk at the Museum of Science, and we 
were joking about how we don't want to be confused with "Brownie" the former 
head of FEMA.  He says he sometimes gets hate mail intended for that other 
Michael Brown.

--Michael Brown

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tinkler, James B (CSC) (US SSA)" <bruce.tinkler at baesystems.com>
To: <atmob-discuss at atmob.org>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:42 PM
Subject: [ATMoB-discuss] Dr Mike Brown, CalTech, discoverer of 
Eris/Xena/Planet X ... youngguy or not?


There were a few comments after the meeting about Mike Brown's
age...well, per Wiki, he's a youngster:

Michael (Mike) E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) has been a (full) Professor
of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) since 2003....

Brown is a Huntsville, Alabama native and graduated from Virgil Grissom
High School in 1983. Brown earned his B.A. in physics from Princeton
University in 1987. He did his graduate studies at the University of
California, Berkeley where he earned an M.Sc. in astronomy in 1990 and a
Ph.D in astronomy in 1994.

That makes him 42... barely the "minimum age" (just joking) to become a
member of ATMoB.  He he he!

By the way, I mentioned he was really dynamic and I thought he'd be a
great professor to take a class with...turns out I was right.  Brian
Marsden mentioned to me that he won the 2007 Feynman Prize for Teaching
at CalTech.

The article is here:
http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12963.html

His home page is here (enter "Mike Brown" in Google and he is the first
one listed, an accomplishment he is proud of!):
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/  CV (Education, Awards, Employement)
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/cv.html

Oh, by the way, he was also included in Time Magazine's 2006 list of the
100 Most Influential People.

-Bruce Tinkler



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