Astronomer Gregory Rudnick

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Astronomer Gregory Rudnick usually gets up around 6:30am to communicate with collaborators across the world, he reads and sends emails from and to European colleagues before they leave for work. He then goes to work around 8:30am, once he gets to work he checks his email, news, and usually spends the rest of his day working on the computer and writing papers over what data he has found and analyzed. At the end of his work day he goes home around 6pm, and relaxes for a couple hours and then gets right back to work at home.

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