Geoff Marcy

Science and the scientist

Oct 10, 2019 1 min read

Op-eds Science 51 Pegasi b Azeen Ghorayshi Didier Queloz Geoff Marcy John B Goodenough lithium-ion batteries Michel Mayor Nobel Prize for Chemistry Nobel Prize for physics sexual harassment

Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff…

Some thoughts on the Mack/Dorigo Twitter exchange, and Zivkovic, Feyerabend, etc.

May 30, 2017 3 min read

Uncategorized Bora Zivkovic gender Geoff Marcy incommensurability Katherine Mack Paul Feyerabend privilege sexism sexual harassment sexuality Tommaso Dorigo women in STEM

Aspirants flock to role models. The 'underlying human' must not jeopardise their conversation by being a dick.…

Oct 11, 2015 4 min read

Uncategorized Geoff Marcy sexual harassment University of California Berkeley

About a week go, NASA announced the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet, and all I could do was think of the amazing Geoff Marcy. When it comes to exoplanet astronomy and the hunt…