Debra Fischer

Debra Ann Fischer
Debra Fischer
Fischer with a keplerian fit for υ And
Born1953
Alma materUniversity of Iowa, San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Cruz
Known forAstronomy, Exoplanetology
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsYale University

Debra Ann Fischer is an American astronomer who is the Eugene Higgins professor of astronomy at Yale University researching detection and characterization of exoplanets. She has detected hundreds of exoplanets and was part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system.[1][2]

  1. ^ Butler, Paul; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Fischer, Debra A.; Brown, Timothy M.; Contos, Adam R.; Korzennik, Sylvain G.; Nisenson, Peter; Noyes, Robert W. (December 1999). "Evidence for Multiple Companions to υ Andromedae". The Astrophysical Journal. 526 (2): 916–927. Bibcode:1999ApJ...526..916B. doi:10.1086/308035. S2CID 123172934.
  2. ^ Overbye, Dennis (12 May 2013). "Finder of New Worlds". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.