1. Jill Cornell Tarter was born on January 16,1944 and is an American astronomer best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
15 Facts About Jill Tarter
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Jill Tarter was elected to its alumni association hall of fame in 2001.
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Jill Tarter earned a Bachelor of Engineering Physics degree as an undergraduate at Cornell University as the only woman in her graduating class of 300 in the engineering college.
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Jill Tarter has worked on a number of major scientific projects, most relating to the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Jill Tarter worked with Bowyer on the radio-search project SERENDIP and created the corresponding backronym, "Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations".
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Jill Tarter was project scientist for NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey in 1992 and 1993 and subsequently director of Project Phoenix under the auspices of the SETI Institute.
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Jill Tarter was co-creator with Margaret Turnbull of the HabCat in 2002, a principal component of Project Phoenix.
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Jill Tarter has published dozens of technical papers and lectures extensively both on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the need for proper science education.
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Jill Tarter had spent 35 years in the quest for extraterrestrial life when she announced her retirement in 2012.
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Jill Tarter's 2011 talk was published in the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space.
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Jill Tarter is a member of the CuriosityStream Advisory Board and the Space for Humanity Board of Advisors.
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Jill Tarter was listed by one commentator as a possible nominee for the position of Science Laureate, if the act were to pass.
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Jill Tarter conversed with the actress for months before and during filming, and Arroway was "largely based" on Jill Tarter's work.
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Jill Tarter has been featured in John Boswell's Symphony of Science music video, "The Poetry of Reality ".
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Jill Tarter thinks that aliens evolved enough to communicate with and travel to Earth will be long-lived enough to have needed to grow beyond violent tendencies.