Douglas N. C. Lin (born May 7, 1949) is professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

. He was born in New York and grew up in Beijing. He earned his BSc from

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, his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy,

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, and performed postdoctoral research at both

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and Cambridge. In 1979 he took an Assistant Professorship at UCSC, and has remained there since. He is also the founding director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

. Douglas Lin's principal research interests are in the origin of the solar system, star formation, astrophysical fluid dynamics, dynamics of stellar clusters, structure of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and galaxy formation. As a mark of respect to his long history of contribution within astronomy, the

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recently held a Symposium titled Evolution of Planetary and Stellar Systems (nicknamed Linfest) in his honour. He also sits on the selection committee for the Astronomy award, given under the auspices of the

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* Otto Schmidt Medal * von Humboldt Fellow *

Sackler Prize The Sackler Prize can indicate any of the following three awards established by Raymond Sackler and his wife Beverly Sackler currently bestowed by the Tel Aviv University. Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Int ...

* LExEN Award given by the

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* Member of selection committee from the

* Member of

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* Founding director,

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Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics *

Brouwer Award The Brouwer Award is awarded annually by the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of dynamical astronomy. The prize is named for Dirk Brouwer. Recipients Source ...

(2014) *

Bruce Medal The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. It is named after Catherine Wolfe Bruce, an American patroness of astronomy, and was firs ...

(2015)

Articles

* R. Spurzem, D. N. C. Lin Orbit Evolution of Planetary Systems in Stellar Clusters * Ji-Lin Zhou and Douglas N. C. Lina Migration and Final Location of Hot Super Earths in the Presence of Gas Giants * Douglas N.C. Lin and Ian Dobbs-Dixon Diversity of close-in planets and the interactions with their host stars * James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Douglas N. C. Lin. Consequences of the Disruption and Ejection of Giant Planets

References

External links

* At Long Last, a New Sun With a Family of Planets * Found: 2 Planetary Systems. Result: Astronomers Stunned. * Linfest {{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Douglas N. C. 1949 births Living people American astronomers McGill University alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Planetary scientists