| Jonathan Lunine | |
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| Born | Jonathan Irving Lunine June 26, 1959 Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Planetary Scientist, Physicist |
Jonathan I. Lunine is an American planetary scientist and physicist. Lunine teaches at Cornell University, where he is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences. Having published more than 200 research papers, Lunine is at the forefront of research into planet formation, evolution, and habitability. His work includes analysis of brown dwarfs, gas giants, and planetary satellites. Within the Solar System, bodies with potential organic chemistry and prebiotic conditions, particularly Saturn's moon Titan, have been the focus of Lunine's research.[1]
He is the David Baltimore Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2008–2010). He is an interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission to Saturn, and on the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as co-investigator on the Juno mission under development for launch to Jupiter. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences[2], a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Geophysical Union. He earned a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Rochester in 1980, followed by M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology.[3]
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