Henry Wanjune Lin (born 1995) is an American student who won the $50,000 Intel Young Scientist award, the second-highest award at the 2013

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for his work with

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professor Michael McDonald on simulations of

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. In 2015, he was named one of

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' 30 under 30 scientists. He is a 2012 alumnus of the

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and a 2013 alumnus of the International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP) at

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. In November 2013, he gave a

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on clusters of galaxies in New Orleans, LA. Together with Harvard astronomy chair

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and atmospheric scientist Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Lin proposed a novel way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by targeting

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with industrial pollution. Lin's unconventional work also includes proposing a statistical theory of human population which explains Zipf's Law and proposing a novel test for

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in the galaxy. He is currently a physics graduate student at

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* 1995 births Living people American astronomers American people of Taiwanese descent {{US-astronomer-stub

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