ERIN WATERS

Comparing:Mike Brown & Heidi

Hammel

About Mike Brown

Planetary AstronomerBorn in 1965, from Huntsville AlabamaLives in California with wife and daughterReceived his AB from Princeton in 1987, and

MA and PhD from University of California, Berkley

Discovery of Eris, work on Kuiper belt, and the atmospheres of planetary satellites

Currently a professor at Caltech University Assistant professor of astronomy at the

California Institute of TechnologyThe man who killed Pluto

http://thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/2010/11/

Achievements & Awards

1994 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship

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2001 Urey Prize, Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society

2007 Richard P. Feynman Teaching Award

Similarities Differences

Planetary ScientistsUrey Prizehave PhDWork at a science

institute

Different awards

Mike Brown VS. Heidi Hammel

Did gender influence their careers?

Both successful, won many awards, and made great contributions to science

Some statistics…NO