#  Charbonneau to receive 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award 

 





February 27, 2009

 

 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is proud to announce that 34-year-old David Charbonneau, currently the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, will receive its 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award. *Discover* Magazine's 2007 Scientist of the Year, Charbonneau's research focuses on the development of novel techniques for the detection and characterization of planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars--extra-solar planets, also known as exoplanets.

Read the [*National Science Foundation*](http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114304&org=NSF&from=news) article.



 

 

 



 

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