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Sir David Nicholas Ramsay Latham, PC (born 18 September 1942) is a retired British judge who was Lord Justice of Appeal and Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales. Latham is the son of Robert Latham (1912–1995), editor of the diary of Samuel Pepys, and his first wife, Eileen Ramsay (d. 1969
May 30, 2019 · David Latham, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, with the HARPS-N spectrograph, which measures the masses of exoplanets. Latham ran immediately into scientific headwinds. The planet he seemed to have found was just too strange – too unlike anything in our solar system.
I am a senior astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have been working on the search for planets orbiting nearby stars since 1984, with a recent focus (since 1999) on transiting planets. I also have a joint appointment at Harvard and have taught thousands of students.
David Latham. Lecturer / Senior Astronomer at SAO. Research. Exoplanets have been my main research interest in recent years, initially with a focus on the detection of candidate planets, both with radial-velocity surveys and with space missions such as Kepler and TESS.
David Latham is an observational astronomer who studies exoplanets and their host stars. He works with various telescopes and instruments, such as Kepler, K2, TESS, HARPS-N, and MMT, to measure planet masses, radii, and atmospheres.
Oct 30, 2013 · David Latham is a CfA astronomer who studies the first known Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density. He and his team discovered that Kepler-78b orbits its star very tightly and will be destroyed soon.
Jul 27, 2018 · David Latham, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is the science program director of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). He oversees the follow-up observations of planet candidates and the selection of the best targets for atmospheric studies.
