Dimitar Sasselov Quotes


There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.


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Sasselov, Dimitar. "How We Found Hundreds of Potential Earth-Like Planets." TED, July 2010, www.ted.com/talks/dimitar_sasselov_how_we_found_hundreds_of_potential_earth_like_planets.

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  • Nationality: Bulgarian
  • Profession: Scientist

Dimitar D. Sasselov (Bulgarian: Димитър Д. Съселов, born 1961) is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.