A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
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David Goldfinger
Graduate Student, Physics Student
I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey near Princeton. I then moved to St. Louis where I attended Washington University in St. Louis for my undergraduate degree.
Research interests:
My interests lie in the field of astrophysics, and I greatly enjoy working with experiments. I am working with Dr. Herman Marshall to develop instrumentation for measuring the polarization of soft X-rays.
Contact Information
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e: dgoldfin@mit.edu
