J. Davy Kirkpatrick

J. Davy Kirkpatrick
Born (1964-07-28) July 28, 1964 (age 60)[citation needed]
Known forBrown dwarfs, Low-mass stars, Stellar spectral classification
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology

J. Davy Kirkpatrick is an American astronomer at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Kirkpatrick's research was named one of the top ten science accomplishments of the first ten years (1992–2002) of the W. M. Keck Observatory[1] and one of the Top 100 Stories of 2011 by Discover Magazine.[2]

  1. ^ "New Kinds of Stars" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-27. Retrieved 2012-02-06.
  2. ^ "Found: Stars Cool Enough to Touch".