Konstantin Batygin
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| Konstantin Batygin | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 38–39) Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Planetary astronomy |
| Education | University of California, California Institute of Technology |
| Spouse | Olga A. Batygin (née Mishina)[1][2][3][4] |
| Children | A daughter (born 2012)[5] |
| Website http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~kbatygin |
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Konstantin Yurievich Batygin (Russian: Константи́н Юрьевич Батыгин) is an American astronomer and Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences at Caltech.[6] He is on the 2015 Forbes list of 30 scientists under 30 who are changing the world.[7]
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Early life
Konstantin Batygin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union.[5] His father, Yuri Konstantinovich Batygin, worked as an accelerator physicist in the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute until May 1994, when he moved along with his wife Galina[8] and their family to Wakō, Japan, for working at the particle accelerator facility in RIKEN.[5] There Konstantin graduated from a public Japanese elementary school, later on attending a Russian embassy-based school and studying the martial art Gōjū-ryū.[5]
Since 2000s, his father started to work in SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, moving the family to Morgan Hill, California,[9] when Konstantin was 13 years old.[7] He chose his college at the University of California, Santa Cruz for the beach and the chance to keep playing in his rock band, The Seventh Season.[5][10] During his sophomore year as an undergraduate at the university, he met Gregory P. Laughlin at a departmental party, and afterwards they began working together on the Solar System’s long-term dynamical evolution.[5] In June 2008, he graduated from UCSC with a bachelor's degree in astrophysics,[9] and won the Loren Steck Award for his thesis, "The Dynamical Stability of the Solar System".[8]
Career
In January 2016, Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown proposed the existence of a ninth planet in the Solar System.[10]
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