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Dr. Alan Boss
Staff Research Astronomer
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Dr. Alan Boss is a research staff member at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C. Boss earned his doctorate in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1979, spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and joined the Carnegie staff in 1981. Boss's theoretical research focuses on the formation of stars and planetary systems. Since 1988, he has been helping NASA plan its search for extrasolar planets. Boss is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Meteoritical Society and the American Geophysical Union. He is the chair of the International Astronomical Union's working group on extrasolar planets and is charged with maintaining its official list of planets. His popular book about the search for planets outside the solar system, "Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems," was published in 1998.
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