Margaret "Maggie" Turnbull (born near Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American astronomer, astrophysicist and astrobiologist, a specialist in liveable star systems. Doctor of Philosophy, employee of the SETI Institute . One of the leading developers of NASA's New Worlds Mission . Entered the list of " One Hundred Living Geniuses " published by the Daily Telegraph in 2007.
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We must have respectful admiration for the planet on which we live.
She was born in the family of a doctor who was fond of collecting butterflies, and accountants. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison (Bachelor of Astronomy and Physics, 1998). At the University of Arizona, she received a master's degree (2001) and a Ph.D. (2004) in astronomy with a minor in cytology. The doctoral dissertation, The Search for Habitable Worlds: From the Terrestrial Planet Finder to SETI, was prepared under the supervision of . Together with him, Turnbull, in the framework of his doctoral work, compiled a Catalog of nearby habitable systems (HabCat). In 2004, she established the Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) and hosted the first one. In 2004-2006, a postdoc at the Carnegie Institute’s Department of Earthly Magnetism. Then she was an astronomer in the team of the Hubble telescope [2] . Member of the NASA mission on WFIRST .
The asteroid named after her, and the Maggie C. Turnbull Astrobiology Early Career Service Award was established.
In 2018, she ran unsuccessfully as an independent candidate for governor of Wisconsin.
Published in , , ApJ and ApJS .