Jack Jonathan Lissauer (born 1957) is an American research scientist who has worked for NASA's

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since 1996. He is a science co-investigator on the Kepler space telescope mission.

Biography

Lissauer received a PhD in mathematics from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1982. Prior to joining

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, Lissauer was an associate professor (September 1993 – August 1996) and assistant professor (June 1987 – August 1993) at

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

. Earlier, he served as a visiting researcher at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

(July 1985 – June 1987) and as an assistant research astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (January–July 1985). His primary research interests are the formation of planetary systems, planetary dynamics and chaos, planetary ring systems, and circumstellar/protoplanetary disks. He discovered, together with

Mark R. Showalter Mark Robert Showalter (born December 5, 1957) is a Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute. He is the discoverer of six moons and three planetary rings. He is the Principal Investigator of NASA's Planetary Data System Rings Node, a co-inv ...

, the inner satellites of

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and Mab. With Showalter, I. de Pater and R. S. French, he also discovered

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, a small satellite of Neptune. In 2014, he was given th
H. Julian Allen Award
for his paper "Models of Jupiter's growth incorporating thermal and hydrodynamic constraints". His previous awards include the Harold C. Urey Prize fro
Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
the Chambliss Writing Prize from the AAS and a NASA Honor Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He was elected a Legacy Fellow of the

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in 2020.

References

External links

Lissauer on the NASA site
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