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Jane Greaves

British astronomer at Cardiff University who led the team that announced the 2020 Venus phosphine detection and the tentative 2024 ammonia follow-up, and who subsequently revised the original team's phosphine abundance estimate sharply downward after independent scrutiny of the data.

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  • Venus Phosphine Detectionannounced 14 September 2020

    Jane Greaves discovered Venus Phosphine Detection — Greaves led both the original September 2020 phosphine announcement and the tentative, not-yet-peer-reviewed 2024 ammonia follow-up.

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  • Jane Greaves is frequently compared to Nikku Madhusudhan — Both led peer-reviewed, statistically caveated biosignature-gas claims on a specific world, Venus and K2-18b respectively, that drew rapid, substantive reanalysis and pushback from independent research groups.

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