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{{Short description|American astronomer}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name            = Tod R. Lauer
| image            =
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| birth_date      = {{birth year and age|1957}}{{citation needed|date=August 2019|reason=Which reliable source mentions where or when he was born?}}
| birth_place      = [[Ohio]]{{citation needed|date=August 2019|reason=Which reliable source mentions where or when he was born?}}
| residence        = [[Arizona, United States]]
| citizenship      = [[United States]]
| nationality      = American
| field            = [[Astronomy]]
| work_institution = [[NOAO]] <br> [[Princeton University]]
| alma_mater      = [[Caltech]] <br> [[UC Santa Cruz]]
| prizes          = NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1992)
| thesis_title    = High resolution surface photometry of elliptical galaxies
| thesis_year      = 1983
| thesis_url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/303126469/
| doctoral_advisor = [[Sandra M. Faber]]
}}


'''Tod R. Lauer''' (born 1957){{citation needed|date=August 2019|reason=Which reliable source mentions where or when he was born (or his age at time of publication)?}} is an American astronomer on the research staff of the [[National Optical Astronomy Observatory]].  He was a member of the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] [[Wide Field and Planetary Camera]] team, and is a founding member of the [[Nuker Team]].  His research interests includes observational searches for massive [[black holes]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lauer |first1=T. R. |display-authors=etal |date=2007  |journal=[[Astrophysical Journal]] |volume=662 |number=2 |pages=808–834 |title=The Masses of Nuclear Black Holes in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies and Implications for the Space Density of the Most Massive Black Holes |doi=10.1086/518223|arxiv=astro-ph/0606739 |bibcode=2007ApJ...662..808L |s2cid=26415900 }}</ref> in the centers of [[galaxy|galaxies]], the structure of [[elliptical galaxies]], [[stellar populations]], [[large-scale structure of the universe]], and astronomical [[image processing]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lauer |first1=T. R. |date=1999 |journal=[[Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific]] |volume=111 |issue=756 |pages=227–237 |title=Combining Undersampled Dithered Images |doi=10.1086/316319|arxiv=astro-ph/9810394 |bibcode=1999PASP..111..227L |s2cid=16376086 }}</ref>  He was the Principal Investigator of the [[Dark Energy Space Telescope|Destiny]] [[JDEM]] concept study,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benford |first1=D. J. |first2=T. R. |last2=Lauer |date=2006 |journal=[[Proceedings of the SPIE]] |volume=6265 |pages=626528 |title=Destiny: a candidate architecture for the Joint Dark Energy Mission |doi=10.1117/12.672135|arxiv=astro-ph/0608413 |bibcode=2006SPIE.6265E..28B |series=Space Telescopes and Instrumentation I: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter |s2cid=7504996 |editor1-last=Mather |editor1-first=John C |editor2-last=MacEwen |editor2-first=Howard A |editor3-last=De Graauw |editor3-first=Mattheus W. M }}</ref> one of the precursors to the [[Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope]] mission. Asteroid [[3135 Lauer]] is named for him. He appears in an episode of the documentary series ''[[Naked Science]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1492050/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1|title=IMDB Entry for Naked Science episode #78, 'Hubble's Amazing Universe'}}</ref> He joined the [[New Horizons|''New Horizons'' Pluto]] team in order to apply his extensive experience with deep space imaging to the ''New Horizons'' data, yielding significantly clearer and mathematically accurate images of [[Pluto]] and [[Charon (moon)|Charon]].
==Early life and education==
Lauer studied Astronomy at the [[California Institute of Technology]] and graduated with a BS degree in 1979. He received his PhD degree in Astronomy from the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]] in 1983 for ''High resolution surface photometry of elliptical galaxies''.<ref name="thesis-lauer-1983">{{cite thesis |title=High resolution surface photometry of elliptical galaxies |date=1983 |publisher=University of California, Santa Cruz |degree=Ph.D. |last=Lauer |first=Tod Richard |url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/303126469/ |via=[[ProQuest]] |url-access=subscription |oclc=964197423}}</ref>
==Awards and honors==
An asteroid, (3135) Lauer, was named in his honor in 1981.<ref>{{cite dictionary |chapter=(3135) Lauer |dictionary=Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher=Springer-Verlag |location=Berlin and Heidelberg |doi=10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3136|year=2007 |isbn=978-3-540-00238-3 |pages=259 }}</ref> In 1992, Lauer was awarded the [[NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal]] for his work with the Wide-Field and Planetary Camera aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20541 |title=NASA Funds Development of Destiny: The Dark Energy Space Telescope |date=August 3, 2006 |publisher=[[National Optical Astronomy Observatory]] |via=SpaceRef Interactive}}</ref> Lauer has been twice awarded the AURA Outstanding Achievement Award for Outstanding Science for 1993<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/pastawards.asp |title=AURA Award Winners 1990-2012 |work=[[Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy]] |date=}}</ref> and 2016<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aura-astronomy.org/news/awards/2016%20AURA%20Awards.pdf |title=2016 AURA Awards |work=[[Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy]] |date=2016}}</ref> by the [[Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy]]. As a part of the New Horizons team, Lauer shared the 2017 [[NASA Group Achievement Award]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170207 |title=New Horizons Team Earns NASA, International Awards |date=February 7, 2017 |work=New Horizons |via=The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/lauer/ Tod Lauer's web page at NOAO]
*[http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/lauer/destiny.htm Destiny Team's web page]
* {{cite episode |url=https://mp3.cbc.ca/radio/CBC_Radio_VMS/270/259/dave-b1zVaTSe-20201204.mp3 |title=Pluto probe finds mysterious night light in the universe (Lauer interview) |series=[[Quirks & Quarks]] |network=[[CBC Radio One]] |date=December 4, 2020}}
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