Heidi Hammel Quotes


Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do.


Citations

Hammel, Heidi. "Heidi Hammel." NOVA: Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, PBS, 2010.

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Heidi Hammel
Heidi Hammel
  • Born: March 14, 1960
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Heidi B. Hammel is a planetary astronomer who has extensively studied Neptune and Uranus. She was part of the team imaging Neptune from Voyager 2 in 1989. She led the team using the Hubble Space Telescope to view Shoemaker-Levy 9's impact with Jupiter in 1994. She has used the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope to study Uranus and Neptune, discovering new information about dark spots, planetary storms and Uranus' rings. In 2002, she was selected as an interdisciplinary scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope.