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Name
  
Jonathan Lunine

Role
  
Scientist



Full Name
  
Jonathan Irving Lunine

Born
  
June 26, 1959

Occupation
  
Planetary Scientist, Physicist

Books
  
Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World

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Jonathan I. Lunine (born June 26, 1959) is an American planetary scientist and physicist. Lunine teaches at Cornell University, where he is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and Director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. Having published more than 300 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.

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Jonathan Lunine UA Planetary Scientist Elected to the National Academy of

Lunine is the David Baltimore Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 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 launched in 2011 to Jupiter. He is the Principal Investigator of a proposed astrobiology mission to Enceladus called Enceladus Life Finder.

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Lunine is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, which gave him its Basic Science Award in 2009. In 2015 he was awarded the Jean Dominique Cassini medal of the European Geosciences 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.

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Lunine was raised Jewish, but is a convert to Catholicism who helped found the Society of Catholic Scientists. He also delivered a lecture on Georges LemaƮtre.

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Technical books

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  • Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
  • Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2005)

  • Jonathan Lunine Lunine says send humans to walk the red soil of Mars Cornell


    References

    Jonathan Lunine Wikipedia


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