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Dr. L. Drake Deming
Chief, Planetary Systems Laboratory
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
Dr. L. Drake Deming is a planetary scientist and infrared astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. His research has focused on infrared observations of stellar and planetary atmospheres, including the Sun and planets in our solar system. Deming earned a bachelors degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1970, and his doctorate in astronomy from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1976. He spent four years teaching astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park, before coming to Goddard in 1980. For the past 10 years, his research has focused on attempts to directly detect and characterize the "hot Jupiter" class of extrasolar planets. He has utilized spectroscopic and photometric techniques in this quest, bserving with ground-based telescopes such as the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Keck observatory in Hawaii. Recently, he was appointed chief of Goddard's Planetary Systems Laboratory.
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