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Jul 2024
47m 48s

Overcoming the Science and Religion Divi...

THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE
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This lecture was given on November 2nd, 2023, at University of California, Santa Barbara.


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About the Speaker:


Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. She did postdoctoral work at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a NASA Hubble fellow, focusing on millimeter observations of planet-forming disks around young stars. 

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