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Henry Lin (astronomer)

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Henry Lin
Born1995 (age 28–29)
Shreveport, Louisiana
CitizenshipUnited 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 the 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 proposed 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]

He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University[9] after receiving his PhD at Princeton University under Juan Maldacena. His dissertation focused on understanding the interior of black holes in quantum gravity.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Henry Lin". ted.com. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  2. ^ "30 Under 30 – Forbes". forbes.com.
  3. ^ Henry Lin (27 February 2014). "Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away – Talk Video – TED.com". ted.com.
  4. ^ Johnson, Carolyn. "Scientists can detect pollution in search for 'intelligent' life". Boston Globe. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  5. ^ Overbye, Dennis (21 July 2014). "More Eyes on the Skies". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  6. ^ Lemonick, Michael. "The Search for Extraterrestrial Air Pollution". Time Magazine. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Astrophysicists Prove That Cities On Earth Grow in the Same Way As Galaxies in Space". MIT Tech Review.
  8. ^ "Life May Have Spread Through the Galaxy Like a Plague". Smithsonian.
  9. ^ "Henry Lin | Stanford Profiles".
  10. ^ "Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations, 2011-2023".

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