Benjamin Michael Zuckerman (born August 16, 1943) is an astrophysicist and an emeritus professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCLA.
[1] His recent work focus primarily on formation and evolution of planetary systems around various types of stars.
Zuckerman completed two degrees in 1963, one in Physics and one in Aeronautic & Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[4] Zuckerman was co-author of a 2008 paper reporting first directly imaged multiplanetary system (arguably, the first directly imaged planets) around HR 8799[5] and a 2010 paper discovering a fourth imaged planet in the system: HR 8799 e.[6] In 1982, Zuckerman co-edited a book called Extraterrestrials, Where Are They with Michael Hart.
In 1996, he also wrote with David Jefferson the book Human Population and the Environmental Crisis, following a public symposium of the same name held at UCLA in October 1993.