Donald Brownlee
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 82 |
| Date of birth | December 21,1943 |
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
| Born | Las Vegas |
| Nevada | |
| United States | |
| Books | Rare Earth |
| Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe | |
| Awards | J. Lawrence Smith Medal |
| Leonard Medal | |
| NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal | |
| Affiliations | University Of Washington |
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| ID | 966502 |
Donald Brownlee Life story
Donald Eugene Brownlee is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington at Seattle and the principal investigator for NASA's Stardust mission. In 2000, along with his co-author Peter Ward, he co-originated the term Rare Earth, in reference to the possible scarcity of life elsewhere in the universe.