Henry Lin
| Henry Lin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1995 (age 19–20) Shreveport, Louisiana |
| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Citizenship | United States |
Henry Wanjune Lin (born 1995) is an American student who won the $50,000 Intel Young Scientist award, the second-highest award at the 2013 Intel Science and Engineering Fair for his work with MIT professor Michael McDonald on simulations of galaxy clusters.[1] In 2015, he was named one of Forbes' 30 under 30 scientists.[2]
He is a 2012 alumnus of the Research Science Institute and a 2013 alumnus of International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP), at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In November 2013, he gave a TED talk on clusters of galaxies in New Orleans, LA.[3]
Together with Harvard astronomy chair Abraham Loeb and atmospheric scientist Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Lin received considerable media attention after proposing a novel way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by targeting exoplanets with industrial pollution.[4][5][6] Lin's unconventional work also includes proposing a statistical theory of human population[7] which explains Zipf's Law and proposing a novel test for panspermia in the galaxy.[8]
References
- ↑ "Henry Lin". ted.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ "30 Under 30 – Forbes". forbes.com.
- ↑ Henry Lin. "Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away – Talk Video – TED.com". ted.com.
- ↑ Johnson, Carolyn. "Scientists can detect pollution in search for ‘intelligent’ life". Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ Overbye, Dennis. "More Eyes on the Skies". NY Times. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
- ↑ Lemonick, Michael. "The Search for Extraterrestrial Air Pollution". Time Magazine. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ↑ "Astrophysicists Prove That Cities On Earth Grow in the Same Way As Galaxies in Space". MIT Tech Review.
- ↑ "Life May Have Spread Through the Galaxy Like a Plague". Smithsonian.