12 Facts About Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey William Marcy was born on September 29,1954 and is an American astronomer.

Geoffrey Marcy was an early influence in the field of exoplanet detection, discovery, and characterization.

Geoffrey Marcy was a co-investigator on the NASA Kepler space telescope mission.

Geoffrey Marcy's collaborators have included R Paul Butler, Debra Fischer and Steven S Vogt, Jason Wright, Andrew Howard, Katie Peek, John Johnson, Erik Petigura, Lauren Weiss, Lea Hirsch and the Kepler Science Team.

Geoffrey Marcy graduated from Granada Hills High School in Granada Hills, California, in 1972.

Geoffrey Marcy then completed a doctorate in astronomy in 1982 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with much of his work done at Lick Observatory.

Geoffrey Marcy then worked as an associate professor of physics and astronomy from 1984 to 1996 and then as a distinguished university professor from 1997 to 1999 at the San Francisco State University.

Geoffrey Marcy was a professor of astronomy and the Watson and Marilyn Alberts Chair for SETI at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1999 through 2015.

Geoffrey Marcy was one of the project leaders of the Breakthrough Initiatives that will search for intelligent life in the universe, using large radio and optical telescopes.

Geoffrey Marcy was a co-investigator of the NASA Kepler mission that discovered over 4000 exoplanets, most being smaller than four times the size of Earth.

In May 2017, Geoffrey Marcy co-authored studies related to laser light emissions from stars, as a way of detecting technology-related signals from an alien civilization.

Geoffrey Marcy was featured on ABC News Nightline, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, The David Letterman Show, a Planetary Radio interview and a National Academy of Sciences interview.