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What notable accomplishments or contributions has this individual made to Astronomy and/or Astrophysics? I'm not sure that merely being a professor in a respectable science is enough to warrant notability. -- I am not good at running 22:46, 25 May 2006 (UTC) reply

This person won the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy in 2000 [1]. So removing this would cause there to be a red-link on that page. Otherwise I don't know.-- T. Anthony 03:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC) reply

notable per director of a max plank institute. Pohick2 ( talk) 17:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC) reply