In the summer of 1950, several scientists were discussing extraterrestrial intelligence over lunch. Responding to the claim that intelligent life must be commonplace throughout the universe, the Nobel ...
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is the first radio telescope to be designed from the ground up to be used for SETI searches.Until its construction, all radio SETI efforts were dependent on the ...
Interstate 80 eastbound, twenty miles outside of Sacramento. It’s Tuesday, November 20, 1984; a day on which a small part of history will be created. In a folder next to me on the front seat of my ...
The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...
SETI is a generic acronym that stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Scientists doing SETI experiments are looking for proof – not merely of life elsewhere – but of intelligent ...
John Rummel is a Senior Scientist with the SETI Institute. He retired as a Professor of Biology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and formerly was a Visiting Scholar at McGill ...
Recipient of one of the 2004 Grants in Honor of Professor Henri Chretien (AAS, September 2004) In April 2007, the asteroid numbered 1989SO8 was named “(6639) Marchis” in honor of his work in the field ...