Editing Colin Pillinger (section)

{{Short description|English planetary scientist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|honorific_suffix  = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|FRAS|FRGS}}
|name              = Colin Pillinger
|image             = Colin Pillinger.jpg
|image_size        = 
|caption           = At [[Jodrell Bank Observatory]] in 2009
|birth_date        = {{birth date|1943|5|9|df=y}}
|birth_name        = Colin Trevor Pillinger
|birth_place       = [[Kingswood, South Gloucestershire|Kingswood]], Gloucestershire, England
|death_date        = {{death date and age|2014|5|7|1943|5|9|df=y}}
|death_place       = [[Cambridge]], England<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27322166|title=Colin Pillinger dies after brain haemorrhage|newspaper=BBC News|date=8 May 2014|last1=Amos|first1=Jonathan}}</ref>
|field             = [[Planetary science]]
|work_institutions = [[Open University]]<br>[[University of Cambridge]]<br>[[University of Bristol]]<br>[[Gresham College]]
|alma_mater        = [[Swansea University|University College of Swansea]] (BSc, PhD)
|thesis_url        = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/502632094
|thesis_title      = Studies on the nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy
|thesis_year       = 1968
|known_for         = ''[[Beagle 2]]'' Mars lander<br>Analyzing Apollo lunar samples<ref name="DIDiscs CP"/>
|prizes            = [[Michael Faraday Prize]] (2011)
}}
'''Colin Trevor Pillinger''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|FRAS|FRGS}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wright |first=Ian |date=2024 |title=Colin Trevor Pillinger. 9 May 1943—7 May 2014 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2023.0032 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=76}}</ref> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|ɪ|l|ɪ|n|dʒ|ər}}; 9 May 1943&nbsp;– 7 May 2014) was an English [[Planetary science|planetary scientist]]. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at [[Open University]] in [[Milton Keynes]],<ref>[http://www.open.edu/openlearn/institutions/the-open-university/science-faculty/planetary-and-space-sciences-research-institute-pssri Planetary and Space Science Research Institute PSSRI Contributors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513013834/http://www.open.edu/openlearn/institutions/the-open-university/science-faculty/planetary-and-space-sciences-research-institute-pssri |date=13 May 2014 }} (accessed 12 May 2014)</ref> he was also the principal investigator for the British ''[[Beagle 2]]'' Mars lander project, and worked on a group of [[Martian meteorite]]s.<ref>{{cite book|title=The real Mars|author=Michael Hanlon|pages=166|isbn=978-1-4050-3639-9|publisher=Basic Books|year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{IMDb name|1553844}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2004/beagle-colin-pillinger/ |title=Beagle 2 - in conversation with Colin Pillinger |publisher=[[Royal Society]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221030722/https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2004/beagle-colin-pillinger/ |archive-date=21 December 2016 }}</ref>