Marc Kuchner
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Marc Kuchner is an American astrophysicist, a staff member at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Together with Wesley Traub, he invented the band-limited coronagraph[1], a design for the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope, also to be used on the James Webb Space Telescope. He helped popularize the ideas of ocean planets[2] and carbon planets and made some of the first observations of a debris disk orbiting G29-38, a metal-rich White Dwarf. Kuchner received his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard in 1994 and his Ph.D. in astronomy from Caltech in 2000.
