Jane X. Luu Quotes


It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.


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Jane X. Luu, Vietnamese American Astronomer, Explaining why it took her and her colleague, David C. Jewitt, so long—5 years—to finally view the Kyperbelt which had earlier been theoretically predicted, Quoted on PBS Nova, July 15, 2015

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Jane X. Luu
Jane X. Luu
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Dr. Jane X. Luu is a Vietnamese American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with David C. Jewitt and Michael Brown) for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system".