Talk:Laurance Doyle

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I didn't think I could justify an article on him at first, but he does get three hits for December at GoogleNews. He gets the following at Scholar Google. Although in quotes he only gets about 655 at regular Google.--T. Anthony 16:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

The result of the debate at Articles for deletion/Laurance Doyle was keep. User:Pablo-flores stated this on 23:28 January 1, 2006 (UTC). This is more than two days ago. Added to this the article is not on Deletion review so I removed the AfD notice.--T. Anthony 06:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Laurance R. Doyle
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Can I add this to the article? And how do I save it, etc? And add a picture? Help appreciated! 155.106.133.27 (talk) 20:45, 25 April 2017 (UTC) Laurance R. Doyle

Dr. Laurance R. Doyle is best known as an astrophysicist who is also a Christian Scientist, and for the first direct detection of a circumbinary planet. He has lectured widely on the subject of scientific Christianity and the spiritual nature of reality. He was featured in the first Christian Science video lecture, Infinity and Individuality as well as many television shows on the search for life in the universe. He has over 100 papers in the refereed scientific literature, has held a Lecturship at University of California, Santa Cruz in physics and astrophysics, and been a visiting professorships at the University of Paris, and at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. He received his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Heidelberg in West Germany in 1987 on radiative transfer modeling of planetary rings. He has been a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute since 1987 and been a Participating Scientist on the NASA Kepler Spacecraft Mission with responsibility for the detection of circumbinary planets. He was the team leader for the first direct detection of a circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, which was nicknamed “Tatooine” after the planet of the hero of the first Star Wars movie (with permission of George Lukas, incidentially).

His duel parents – Jane R. and Ervin E. Smithers (stepfather), and Michael P. and Marie Doyle -- were all residents of California. He is a triplet (fraternal, sister Moira and brother Eric, older half-sister Jane Alexander) and grew up along the California coast in the small town of Cambria. He attended San Diego State University receiving his Bachelors and Master of Science degrees in Astronomy there. He worked in the Space Image Processing Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the Voyager Spacecraft’s encounters with the Jupiter and Saturn planetary systems before going to the SETI Institute where his main projects have included the photometric detection of extrasolar planets, the application of information theory to animal communications, the ecology of  circumstellar habitable zones, and the application of quantum physics to solve certain astronomical problems.

He held the first conference and co-edited the first volume on Circumstellar Habitable Zones (J. Ellen Blue publisher and owner of Travis House Publications – wiki link) which helped to start the field of Astrobiology at NASA Ames Research Center. With colleagues, his scientific accomplishments include determination of the first photometric constraints on the age of Saturn’s rings (in collaboration with Luke Dones and Jeff Cuzzi), the first introduction of information theory to animal communication systems showing that dolphin whistles, for example, obey a “language-like” frequency disribution (with Brenda McCowan and Sean Hanser), and published the first papers on three of about a dozen extrasolar planet detection methods - the eclipsing binary timing method, the reflected light detection method, and the eclipse echo method (with Hans Deeg and Jon Jenkins).

He has taught quantum physics, thermodynamics, introductory astronomy, history of science and Native American history at Principia College in Illinois. He has lectured for the Christian Science Board of Lectureship and has been a contributing editor for the Christian Science Sentinel and the Christian Science Journal. He is Founder of the Quantum Astrophysics Group at the SETI Institute (with co-founding members David Carico, Gerry Harp, and Stuart Pilorz). He is currently Director of the Institute for the Metaphysics of Physics at Principia College. He is working on quantum astronomy experiments such as the use the moons of Jupiter as a Solar-System-scale double-slit to determine, using the Sun, if quantum uncertainty time intervals can interact with gravitationally time-dilated intervals. Some quotes are: “The math is not in the chalk.” “Science is what happens while history is repeating itself.” “An electron cannot produce consciousness if it does not exist until it is measured.”

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No longer at Principia College
Doyle is not current faculty at Principia College; the Institute he led no longer exists. 155.106.133.73 (talk) 20:02, 18 January 2023 (UTC)