Renowned scientist who studied distant planets fatally shot at his home near LA

>Grillmair’s curriculum vitae listed more than four decades of experience in his field, including hundreds of publications, contributed papers and abstracts – as well as an exceptional scientific achievement medal from Nasa.

>“He’s irreplaceable,” Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, who worked alongside Grillmair at Caltech for 26 years, said in an interview on Friday. “I will miss him very personally, and I will miss him as a colleague as well.”