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Chadwick Trujillo
Sign in to saveAlso known as Chadwick A. Trujillo, Chadwick A Trujillo, C A Trujillo, CA Trujillo, C. A. Trujillo, C.A. Trujillo, Chad A Trujillo, Chad A. Trujillo
American astronomer
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5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
- Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes
· 2015 · cited 6,301x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,999x
- Steric effects of phosphorus ligands in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis
· 1977 · cited 4,477x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1973-11-22 ) November 22, 1973 (age 52)
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology , University of Hawaiʻi
- Known for
- Discovery of Eris , Sedna and other trans-Neptunian objects
- Fields
- Planetary astronomy
- Institutions
- Gemini Observatory , Northern Arizona University
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Encyclopedic overview
Chadwick A. Trujillo (born November 22, 1973) is an American astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and the co-discoverer of Eris, the most massive dwarf planet known in the Solar System.
Trujillo works with computer software and has examined the orbits of the numerous trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which is the outer area of the Solar System that he specialized in. Trujillo, along with Michael Brown and David Rabinowitz, discovered Eris in 2003. As a result of the discovery of the satellite Dysnomia, Eris was the first TNO known to be more massive than Pluto.
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