David Clifford Jewitt is a British astronomer born in 1958 who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Director of the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, and a professor of astronomy. He is best known for being the first person, along with Jane Luu, to discover a body beyond Pluto and Charon in the Kuiper belt, and he shared the 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics with Luu and Michael Brown for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members.
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Works In: Astronomy, Infobox, fields
Infobox fields: Astronomy, astrophysics
Works In: Astrophysics, Infobox, fields
Infobox fields: Astronomy, astrophysics
Member Of: National Academy of Sciences, Article text
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Member Of: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Article text
In 2005, he became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of
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