Michael E Brown's Life And Career

Michael E. Brown was born on June 5th, 1965. He is a famous astronomer known for his work on distant objects (beyond Neptune) orbiting the sun. His biggest achievement is the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris, which is larger than Pluto.
Personal Life and Career
Mike Brown is from Huntsville, Alabama. He studied at the Virgil I. Grissom High School from which he graduated in 1983. In 1987, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in physics from Princeton University and he was also a member of the Princeton Tower Club during his time there.
Brown earned an M.A. in astronomy in 1990 from the University of California, Berkeley. He continued his education and got his Ph.D. from the same institute in 1994.
In March of 2003, Brown married Diane Binney.
As a consequence of his findings, Pluto lost its status as a planet and was downgraded to a planetoid. Mike jokingly refers to himself as the man who killed Pluto.
Brown’s Writings and Publications
Other than his work with TNOs, Michael Brown is also famous for his writings. He has authored about 100 scientific papers and his works have been published by World Book Science Year, Physics Today, and the New York Times. His memoir of discoveries, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, was published in 2010.
He has also taught a number of students during his career who are making a name for themselves in the field of astronomy. Some of notable among them are Megan Schwamb, Emily Schaller, Darin Ragozzine, Antonin Bouchez, Adam Burgasser, Chad Trujillo, Jean-Luc Margot and Marc Kuchner.
Awards and Honors
During his career, Mike E. Brown has won several awards and had many honors. For instance, Asteroid 11714, which was discovered in April 1998, was named Mike Brown in his honor. Time magazine also put him on its list of the 100 most influential people of
Grissom High School. His father had been an engineer who worked on computers which were inside the rocket ships — these computers were the ones in charge of the rocket navigation, and Mike’s father had been one of the brains behind the computers that were in Saturn V and the Lunar Module. It was his exposure to his father’s work that helped foster his interest for space discovery.
In 1987, he earned his A.B. in Physics after completing his education in Princeton University where he was also one of the members of the Princeton Tower Club. He took his graduate courses at the University of California in Berkeley. There he earned his M.A. in Astronomy in 1990. Four years later, he earned his Ph.D.
During his academic years, he had been the recipient of a number of awards. He won the Urey Prize which was given to the best young planetary scientist and this was given by the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences. He also received the Presidential Early Career Award and a Sloan Fellowship. In 2012, he won the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics and in 2014, he had recently been inducted into the National Academy of Science. The one which started his career though was when he received a certain honorable mention in the science fair he participated back in fifth