Konstantin Batygin

Not to be confused with Konstantin Badygin.
Konstantin Batygin
Born 1986 (age 29–30)
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality American
Fields Planetary astronomy
Education University of California, California Institute of Technology
Spouse Olga A. Batygin (née Mishina)[1][2][3][4]
Children A daughter (born 2012)[5]
Website
http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~kbatygin

Konstantin Yurievich Batygin (Russian: Константи́н Юрьевич Батыгин) is an American astronomer and Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences at Caltech.[6] He is on the 2015 Forbes list of 30 scientists under 30 who are changing the world.[7]

Early life

Konstantin Batygin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union.[5] His father, Yuri Konstantinovich Batygin, worked as an accelerator physicist in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute until May 1994, when he moved along with his wife Galina[8] and their family to Wakō, Japan, for working at the particle accelerator facility in RIKEN.[5] There Konstantin graduated from a public Japanese elementary school, later on attending a Russian embassy-based school and studying the martial art Gōjū-ryū.[5]

Since 2000s, his father started to work in SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, moving the family to Morgan Hill, California,[9] when Konstantin was 13 years old.[7] He chose his college at the University of California, Santa Cruz for the beach and the chance to keep playing in his rock band, The Seventh Season.[5][10] During his sophomore year as an undergraduate at the university, he met Gregory P. Laughlin at a departmental party, and afterwards they began working together on the Solar System’s long-term dynamical evolution.[5] In June 2008, he graduated from UCSC with a bachelor's degree in astrophysics,[9] and won the Loren Steck Award for his thesis, "The Dynamical Stability of the Solar System".[8]

Career

In January 2016, Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown proposed the existence of a ninth planet in the Solar System.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty Footnotes: Konstantin Batygin". Engineering & Science. California Institute of Technology. June 10, 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Olga Batygin. "Outreach, gender, and science: my personal thoughts". LinkedIn. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Olga A. Batygin". caltech.edu. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Olga Batygin". radaris.com. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Konstantin Batygin. "About Me". Gps.caltech.edu. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ Konstantin Batygin. "Home". Gps.caltech.edu. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. 1 2 Sarah Hedgecock (January 5, 2015). "30 Under 30: Young Scientists Who Are Changing The World". Forbes. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Undergraduate awards ceremony caps annual Student Achievement Week". University of California Santa Cruz. June 9, 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  9. 1 2 Tim Stephens (June 9, 2008). "Study by UCSC undergrad shows a solar system gone wild". University of California Santa Cruz. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  10. 1 2 Eric Hand (20 January 2016). "Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto". Science. Retrieved 21 January 2016.

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