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Phillip Lewis Thompson was born on March 16, 1970 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He has been an environmental engineering professor at Seattle University since earning a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1997. He was awarded the 2010 McGoldrick Fellowship (the highest faculty honor) and the 2015 Faculty Excellence Award by the Seattle University Alumni Association. He has published articles for drinking water and wastewater treatment, hazardous waste remediation, engineering education and humanitarian engineering. Thompson was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's inaugural faculty fellow, and his work in the developing world has led to thousands of people gaining access to safe and reliable water supplies in Haiti, Peru, Senegal and Thailand. He is a practicing professional engineer through Northwest Engineers, LLC which he founded in 2007. In addition to traffic engineering, the company operates the drinking water treatment system at the Bullitt Center, one of the most sustainable buildings in the world.

Thompson may be best known for finding the first statistically valid correlation between astrology and human behavior. Known as the starscore, Thompson showed that artistic swimmers and doubles tennis players had significantly higher starscores and that figure skating pairs had significantly lower starscores than the than the global average of 102.

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