Dan Werthimer is co-founder and chief scientist of the
SETI@home project and directs other UC Berkeley
SETI
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other p ...
searches at radio, infrared and visible wavelengths, including the
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP). He is also the principal investigator for the worldwide Collaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research (CASPER).
Werthimer was associate professor in the engineering and physics departments of San Francisco State University and a visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University of St. Charles in Marseille, Eotvos University in Budapest. His father,
Jerrold Werthimer
Jerrold or ''Jerold'' are masculine English given name variants of Gerald, a German language name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Jerrold was initially brought to Great Britain by the ...
, was Professor of Journalism at
San Francisco State University
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for many years.
Werthimer has taught courses at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. He has published numerous papers in the fields of SETI, radio astronomy, instrumentation and science education; he is co-author of "SETI 2020" and editor of "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe". He received the prestigious Frank Drake Prize of the
SETI Institute
The SETI Institute is a not-for-profit research organization incorporated in 1984 whose mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin and nature of life in the universe, and to use this knowledge to inspire and guide present and futu ...
in 2021.
References
External links
Berkeley SETI Websiteseti@home WebsiteCollaboration for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research Website
Living people
American astronomers
San Francisco State University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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