Benjamin Michael Zuckerman is an astrophysicist and a professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA. His recent work focus primarily on formation and evolution of planetary systems around various types of stars.

Education

Dr. Zuckerman completed two degrees in 1963, one in Physics and one in Aeronautic & Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. He finished his PhD thesis in Astronomy in 1968 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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Scientific publications

Since 1965, Dr. Zuckerman published well over 200 referreed papers as a first author in journals such as Astrophysical Journal

Astrophysical Journal

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, Nature

Nature

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, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Science

Science

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. He also produced number of review papers in Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics. In 2001, he participated to the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Outreach work

In 1982, Dr. Zuckerman co-edited a book called Extraterrestrials, Where Are They with Michael Hart. The book was republished in 1995. He also co-authored the book The Origin and Evolution of the Universe with Matthew A. Malkan and Matthew J. Thomas. In 1996, he also wrote with David Jefferson the book Human Population and the Environmental Crisis, following a public symposium of the same name held at UCLA in October 1993.

External links

• Benjamin Zuckerman webpage on UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy website
• Benjamin Zuckerman’s Astronomy Web Page
• Benjamin Zuckerman's page on NASA Astrobiology Institute
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