Astronomer Geoff Marcy, Earth’s Premier Planet Hunter, Wins Carl Sagan Prize

STANFORD and BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 22, 2009 — Geoff Marcy, Earth’s foremost discoverer of planets outside our solar system, has won the 2009 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. The award recognizes Marcy’s “exceptional contributions to the public understandin…