David Jewitt

Distinguished Professor

310-825-2521
jewitt@epss.ucla.edu
3713 Geology

PhD  California Institute of Technology, 1983

Links

• Research Website
  

Awards

• Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Research, University of Hawaii
  1994
• Scientist of the Year, ARCS
  1996
• Fellow of University College London
  1998
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  2005
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  2005
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  2005
• Honorary Professor, National Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2006
• Adjunct Professor, National Central University
  2007
• Shaw Prize in Astronomy
  2012
• Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
  2012
• Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Foreign Member
  2012
• International Astronomical Union Asteroid (6434) Jewitt
  
• Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award, NASA
  1996

Research Areas

• Planetary Science

Membership in Academies and Socieities

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• National Academy of Sciences