| LC control no. | n 97121486 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Boss, Alan, 1951- |
| Variant(s) | Boss, A. P. (Alan Paul), 1951- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1951-07-20 |
| Field of activity | Astronomy |
| Affiliation | Carnegie Institution of Washington Las Campanas Observatory |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers Astrophysicists |
| Found in | Looking for earths, 1998: CIP t.p. (Alan Boss) info. sheet (Alan P. Boss is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C.; He is a prominent astronomer; world's leading authorities on planet formation) d.s. (dob July 20, 1951) Protostars and planets IV, c2000: CIP t.p. (Alan Paul Boss) bk. t.p. (Alan P. Boss) cover (A.P. Boss) Universal life, 2019: title page (Alan Boss) back cover (Alan Boss is an astrophysicist and has been helping NASA plan its search for exoplanets since 1988. For the past thirty-five years, Boss has been on staff at the Carnegie Institution for Science in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. He leads a groundbased astrometric planet search effort at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. He currently chairs NASA Astrophysics Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe) |
| Associated language | eng |
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