George Rieke
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George Rieke is Regents Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and serves as the science team lead for the James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). He led the development of the MIPS instrument for the Spitzer Space Telescope, which documented the incidence, properties, and evolution of planetary debris disks around nearby stars.