J. Davy Kirkpatrick | |
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Born | citation needed] | July 28, 1964 [
Known for | Brown dwarfs, Low-mass stars, Stellar spectral classification |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy |
Institutions | California 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]