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Amy Mainzer
ASTRONOMER
1974 - Today
Amy Mainzer
Amy Mainzer (born January 2, 1974) is an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amy Mainzer has received more than 366,812 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Amy Mainzer is the 625th most popular astronomer (down from 565th in 2019), the 16,583rd most popular biography from United States (down from 16,162nd in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Astronomer.
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Among ASTRONOMERS
Among astronomers, Amy Mainzer ranks 625 out of 644. Before her are Akimasa Nakamura, Marc William Buie, Anja Cetti Andersen, Eva Grebel, Zdeněk Moravec, an
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Amy Mainzer
American astronomer
Amy Mainzer (born January 2, 1974) is an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysicalinstrumentation and infrared astronomy. She was the deputy project scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and is the principal investigator for its NEOWISE extension to study minor planets[1] and for the future Near Earth Object Surveyor space telescope mission.
She also hosted segments for and served as science curriculum consultant and executive producer for the PBS Kids series Ready Jet Go!.[2]
Life
[edit]Mainzer received a B.Sc. in physics from Stanford University with honors (1996), an M.Sc. in astronomy from California Institute of Technology (2000), and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles (2003).
Her research interests include asteroids, brown dwarfs, planetary atmospheres, debris disks, star formation, and the design and construction of new ground- and space-based instrument