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Debra Fischer
Member profile details
Membership level
Emeritus
Salutation
Professor
First Name
Debra
Middle Initial
A.
Last Name
Fischer
Organization
Yale University
Academic Credential
PhD
Position/Title
Professor of Astronomy
Department (if applicable)
JW Gibbs Lab 259
DEGREES: (institution, date, degree, major)
University of Iowa, 1975, BS; San Francisco State University, 1992, MS, Physics; University of California, Santa Cruz, 98, PhD, Astrophysics.
City
New Haven
STATE
CT
Year Elected
2011
Citation
Professor Fischer is recognized as a world-famous discoverer of "exoplanets" - i.e., planets around stars other than our Sun. Her group discovered a large fraction of the hundreds of exoplanets now known. She established the link between the evolutionary state of a star and its probability of hosting one or more planets. For this work she received the 2002 Carl Sagan award of the American Astronautical Society.
Professional Area(s)
Stellar astrophysics; Extrasolar planets; Astrobiology
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