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Seth Shostak
American astronomer and author (born 1943) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Seth Shostak (born July 20, 1943) is an American astronomer and author, and is currently the senior astronomer for the SETI Institute.[1][2][3]
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![]() Shostak in 2017 giving a talk at NASA's Langley Research Center | |
Born | (1943-07-20) July 20, 1943 (age 81) |
Alma mater | Princeton (BA) California Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Known for | SETI research |
Awards | Klumpke-Roberts Award (2004) Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization (2015) |
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Fields | Physics, astronomy, science communication |
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Shostak hosts SETI's weekly radio show/podcast Big Picture Science, has played himself numerous times in TV and internet film dramas, and has acted in several science fiction films.