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Mike Brown | TED Speaker

Mike Brown scans the skies searching for and intensely studying distant bodies in our solar system in the hope of gaining insight into how our planet and the planets around it came to be.
Planetary astronomer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/mike_brown

Karin Öberg | TED Speaker

Karin Öberg studies how chemistry and physics interact during planet formation to shape the compositions of new planets.
Space chemist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/karin_oeberg

Dimitar Sasselov | TED Speaker

Dimitar Sasselov works on uniting the physical and life sciences in the hunt for answers to the question of how life began.
Astronomer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dimitar_sasselov

Anjali Tripathi | TED Speaker

Anjali Tripathi explores planets to uncover the processes that make and destroy them.
Astrophysicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anjali_tripathi

Sara Seager | TED Speaker

Sara Seager’s research led to the first discovery of an atmosphere on a planet outside our solar system. Now she’s on the hunt for a twin Earth.
Exoplanet expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sara_seager

Adam Davidson | TED Speaker

Adam Davidson is the co-host and co-creator of "Planet Money," a weekly podcast and radio feature about the economy.
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/adam_davidson

Will Marshall | TED Speaker

At Planet, Will Marshall leads overall strategy for commercializing new geospatial data and analytics that are disrupting agriculture, mapping, energy, the environment and other vertical markets.
Space scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/will_marshall

Heidi Hammel | TED Speaker

Dr. Heidi Hammel is an interdisciplinary scientist for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021 to search for the first galaxies or luminous objects formed after the Big Bang.
Astronomer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/heidi_b_hammel

Yann Arthus-Bertrand | TED Speaker

With photography, Yann Arthus-Bertrand has captured the beauty of the Earth. Through video and film, his latest projects bind together ecology and humanism. For him, it's all about living together.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/yann_arthus_bertrand

Jessie Christiansen | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen hunts for planets, seeking to answer timeless questions about the universe.
Planet hunter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jessie_christiansen

Elon Musk | TED Speaker

Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
Serial entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/elon_musk

Christopher Ategeka | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Christopher Ategeka is on a mission to ensure a sustainable future for humanity and the planet.
Serial entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/christopher_ategeka

Tabetha Boyajian | TED Speaker

Tabetha Boyajian is best known for her research on KIC 8462852, a puzzling celestial body that has inspired otherwise sober scientists to brainstorm outlandish hypotheses.
Astronomer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tabetha_boyajian

Sarah Rugheimer | TED Speaker

Sarah Rugheimer looks for signs of life on other planets by studying the telltale chemical signatures on distant planets.
Astrophysicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_rugheimer

John Francis | TED Speaker

John Francis walks the Earth, carrying a message of careful, truly sustainable development and respect for our planet.
Planet walker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_francis

Morgan Vague | TED Speaker

Bacteria, bugs, germs -- Morgan Vague loves to get in the dirt (literally) to explore solutions to pressing problems.
Senior researcher assistant
https://www.ted.com/speakers/morgan_vague

Prince William | TED Speaker

Protecting the natural environment for future generations is one of Prince William's key priorities.
The Duke of Cambridge
https://www.ted.com/speakers/prince_william_duke_of_cambridge

Ben Roche | TED Speaker

Ben Roche is the pastry chef at Moto, in Chicago, and was the co-host, with Homaro Cantu, of the TV show "Future Food."
Chef
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_roche

Prosanta Chakrabarty | TED Speaker

Prosanta Chakrabarty studies fish to help explain the evolution of human beings and our planet.
Ichthyologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/prosanta_chakrabarty

Simon Anholt | TED Speaker

After 20 years working with the presidents and prime ministers of 54 countries, Simon Anholt has a plan to make the world work better.
Policy advisor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/simon_anholt

George Monbiot | TED Speaker

As an investigative journalist and self-described "professional troublemaker," George Monbiot uncovers the complicated truths behind the world's most persistent problems.
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/george_monbiot

Jor-El | TED Speaker

Planet Krypton's leading scientific genius, Jor-El invented a widely used hovercraft and discovered a parallel world called the Phantom Zone.
Scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jor_el

Sylvia Earle | TED Speaker

Sylvia Earle has been at the forefront of ocean exploration for more than four decades. The winner of the 2009 TED Prize, she's a tireless advocate for our oceans.
Oceanographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sylvia_earle

Jeremy Kasdin | TED Speaker

Using innovative orbiting instruments, aerospace engineer Jeremy Kasdin hunts for the universe’s most elusive objects — potentially habitable worlds.
Planet finder
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jeremy_kasdin

Peter Ward | TED Speaker

Peter D. Ward studies life on Earth -- where it came from, how it might end, and how utterly rare it might be.
Paleontologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/peter_ward

Rick Smolan | TED Speaker

Rick Smolan is the co-founder of the America 24/7 and Day in the Life photography series -- and a natural storyteller in many media. His latest books are America at Home and Blue Planet Run.
Photographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rick_smolan

Barbara J. King | TED Speaker

As a writer on animal cognition and emotion, Barbara J. King seeks to motivate us all to be kinder to the animals we share the planet with.
Biological anthropologist, writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/barbara_j_king

Maya Penn | TED Speaker

Maya Penn makes eco-friendly clothes and accessories, which she sells on a site she built -- and gives away a percent of the profits.
Entrepreneur, animator, philanthropist ...
https://www.ted.com/speakers/maya_penn_1

Jill Seubert | TED Speaker

Jill Seubert navigates spacecraft throughout the solar system, exploring with robots where humans cannot yet go.
Interplanetary navigator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jill_seubert

Einstein the Parrot | TED Speaker

Einstein, the African grey parrot, has a vocabulary of more than 200 words and sounds; she can perform nearly half on cue.
African grey parrot
https://www.ted.com/speakers/einstein_the_parrot
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