NO SUCCESSION PLAN. “To give another metric of the academic maturity of the field: only five people in the US have ever received PhDs in the physical sciences for dissertations whose primary focus was SETI, only two of whom are astronomers today. Four were trained at Harvard by Paul Horowitz, eventually building a dedicated optical SETI observatory. The fifth is Andrew Siemion, trained in radio astronomy at Berkeley by Dan Werthimer and Geoff Bower—today Dr. Siemion serves as the director of the Breakthrough Listen SETI project and as the Oliver Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022