David J. Stevenson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 77 |
| Date of birth | September 2,1948 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | New Zealand |
| Doctoral advisor | Edwin Ernest Salpeter |
| Fields | Planetary science |
| Earth science | |
| Astrophysics | |
| Geophysics | |
| Awards | Harold C. Urey Prize |
| Whipple Award | |
| H. C. Urey Prize ; Whipple Award (1994); Harry H. Hess Medal (1998); Richard P. Feynman Prize (2001) | |
| Notable student | Konstantin Batygin |
| Books | Evolution of the Earth: Treatise on Geophysics 2E |
| Affiliations | California Institute Of Technology |
| Interests | Origin |
| Evolution & Structure Of Planets | |
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| ID | 1309560 |
David J. Stevenson Life story
David John Stevenson is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter.