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Paul Butler is an American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. He specializes in the detection of extrasolar planets using high-precision radial velocity spectroscopy. By co-developing advanced optical spectrographs and analysis techniques in the 1990s, he played a central role in the discovery of dozens of the earliest known exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, advancing observational astronomy.
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Paul Butler ranks #287 of 464 in the Astronomer ranking, behind Iosif Shklovsky, ahead of Angelo Secchi.
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