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Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer. He was an early influence in the field of exoplanet detection, discovery, and characterization. Marcy was a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at San Francisco State University.
May 16, 2023 · Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused on the detection of exoplanets, but its authorship. To the dismay of many astronomers, Geoff Marcy was listed as the third of 16 authors.
Oct 14, 2015 · Geoffrey Marcy, a prominent astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, has resigned following a university investigation that concluded he had repeatedly sexually harassed women.
Nov 12, 2015 · In the first few days after Geoff Marcy, one of the world’s most famous astronomers, resigned from his tenured position at UC Berkeley, many people wondered if the sexual harassment rulebook in academia was finally changing. Maybe the era when a star professor could kiss, massage, and grope female students; when multiple complaints could go ...
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Oct 13, 2015 · Geoffrey Marcy, a top figure in extrasolar-planet discovery since the field began and one of America's most public astronomers, sexually pressured and harassed students and researchers who were studying and training for careers under him for at least a decade, an investigation by the University of California at Berkeley concluded last June. The ...
May 27, 2021 · NAS's governing council has rescinded the membership of astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, the academy told its members in an email yesterday. The action is the first since the 158-year-old NAS revised its bylaws 2 years ago to allow members to be expelled for documented misconduct violations.
Geoffrey Marcy (born September 29, 1954, St. Clair Shores, Michigan, U.S.) is an American astronomer whose use of Doppler shifts to detect extrasolar planets led to the discovery of several hundred planetary bodies in multiple star systems.
