When was jane luu born

Born in July in South Vietnam, I am the second child in a family of four children one older sister, two younger brothers. We were part of a much larger family: my father had fourteen siblings, my mother five. Both my parents had emigrated to South Vietnam from North Vietnam in My father taught me French as a child, initiating a fondness for languages.

In April , when the South Vietnamese government collapsed, my family emigrated to the United States. We spent the next several months in a series of refugee camps, rented rooms and motel rooms before settling in Paducah, Kentucky, living with an aunt and her family. My father remained in Southern California to learn a trade and find employment, believing it easier to do this without supporting a family at the same time. Here are her professional stats.

Skip to main content. Search form Search. Claire Light. As a child, I'd just look up and see the pretty stars but nothing more than that. I didn't have a telescope or anything.

I stumbled upon astronomy by accident. I visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and saw the pictures from Voyager! That was the first time I realized, "Wow, there are people who go and study these things and do this for a living. Her advice to children: It was my collaborator, Dave Jewitt, who pointed out to me, "You know people like to use the word 'brilliant'. People like to hero worship and say 'oh, this astronomer is brilliant.

That's all there is. If you have some perseverance and you stick to your ideas, you can make something of them. If you're interested in something you're already halfway there. Luu has also taught as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Nepal and Tibet. By chance. Gender and Sexuality.

Suggested Reads. Arriving in the United States as refugees, the Luus ended up with relatives in Kentucky. Luu excelled at science in school and won a scholarship to study physics at Stanford University. Inspired by the pictures of planets on the walls taken by the Voyager probes, she resolved to study planetary astronomy. After Berkeley, she moved to the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and it was there, while working on her doctorate, that she teamed up with David Jewitt on the Slow-Moving Objects survey of the outer solar system.