Boss, Alan

ALAN BOSS is a research scientist and NASA advisor at the prestigious Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., and has long been one of the world's leading figures in the search for extrasolar planets. His gift for clarifying complex scientific issues for a lay audience has led to articles in Scientific American, Nature, and Physics Today. He has also been quoted regularly in front-page articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as in Time.