Douglas J. Mink

Douglas J. Mink

Douglas J. Mink is an American software developer and a data archivist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Mink was part of the team that discovered the rings around the planet Uranus.[1]

Mink was born in Elgin, Illinois in 1951. He graduated from Dundee Community High School in 1969. He earned an S.B. degree (1973) and an S.M. degree (1974) in Planetary Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mink has served as an officer and director of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition.[2] He has been the route planner for the Massachusetts portion of the East Coast Greenway since 1991.

He currently lives in Massachusetts (USA), and has a daughter named Sarah Mink.

References

  1. ^ Elliot, J.L.; E. Dunham, D. Mink (1977). "The Rings of Uranus". Nature 267 (5609): 328–330. Bibcode 1977Natur.267..328E. doi:10.1038/267328a0. 
  2. ^ "Doug Mink, Bicyclist". http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/mink/bike/. Retrieved 2008-12-24. 



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