#  John Asher Johnson 

Professor of Astronomy

 

 

 



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 location\_on Perkin Lab, P-340 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [(617) 496-9820](<tel:(617) 496-9820>) 

 email <jjohnson@cfa.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Professional Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/jjohnson) 

 laptop\_windows [Banneker Institute](http://bannekerinstitute.fas.harvard.edu/) 

 

 



 

 *Research Interests:* The detection and characterization of exoplanets.

 Received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Astronomy from UC Berkeley, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now known as the [Missouri University of Science and Technology](http://www.mst.edu/)).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## People Role
    
     [Senior ITC Members](/people-role/senior-itc-members)
- ## Research Area
    
     [Planetary Astronomy](/research-area/planetary-astronomy)