Biography:Michael Rowan-Robinson

From HandWiki
Short description: British astronomer
Michael Rowan-Robinson

FRAS FInstP
Born
Geoffrey Michael Rowan-Robinson[1]

(1942-07-09)9 July 1942[1]
EducationEshton Hall School[1]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
Royal Holloway, University of London (PhD)[2][3]
AwardsFred Hoyle Medal and Prize (2008)
Scientific career
InstitutionsImperial College London
Gresham College
ThesisOn the structure and distribution of quasi-stellar radio-sources (1969)
Doctoral advisorWilliam McCrea[4]
Doctoral studentsBrian May[2][5]
Websiteastro.ic.ac.uk/home/mrrobinson

(Geoffrey) Michael Rowan-Robinson FRAS FInstP (born 1942)[1] is an astronomer, astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at Imperial College London. He previously served as head of the astrophysics group until May 2007 and from 1981 to 1982, and as Gresham Professor of Astronomy.[1][6]

Education

Rowan-Robinson was educated at Eshton Hall School[1] and the University of Cambridge where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences as an undergraduate student of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went on to complete a PhD on Quasars at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1969 supervised by William McCrea.[2][4]

Research and career

Rowan-Robinson's research interests include the Spitzer Space Telescope SWIRE project, the European Large Area ISO Survey, the UK SCUBA Survey (see James Clerk Maxwell Telescope), the IRAS PSC Redshift Survey, the Herschel Space Observatory SPIRE instrument[7] and the Planck Surveyor HFI.[8]

Rowan-Robinson co-supervised Brian May's PhD in Astrophysics initially supervised by James Ring and Ken Reay.[2][5] He retired as president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2008.[citation needed]

Publications

His publications[9][10] and books include:

  • The Cosmological Distance Ladder[11]
  • Universe[12]
  • Ripples in the Cosmos[13]
  • The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos[14]
  • Cosmology[15]

Awards and honours

Rowan-Robinson was awarded the 2008 Hoyle Medal by the Institute of Physics for his research in infrared and submillimetre astronomy, and observational cosmology.[16]

The asteroid 4599 Rowan, discovered in 1985 by Henri Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory, was renamed[when?] "Rowan" to honor Michael Rowan-Robinson. The credit notes that, even though Rowan-Robinson's contributions have been in extragalactic astronomy, he was able to use data from IRAS to set a limit on the number of undiscovered Jupiter-like planets beyond the orbit of Neptune.[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "ROWAN-ROBINSON, Prof. (Geoffrey) Michael". Who's Who. 1997 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U33289.  (subscription or UK public library membership required) (Subscription content?)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Michael Rowan-Robinson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson". Imperial College London. http://astro.ic.ac.uk/home/mrrobinson. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rowan-Robinson, Geoffrey Michael (1969). On the structure and distribution of quasi-stellar radio-sources. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. ISBN 9781339706757.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 May, Brian Harold (2008). A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. Bibcode:2008srvz.book.....M. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-77706-1. hdl:10044/1/1333. ISBN 9780387777054. OCLC 754716941. open access
  6. ↑ Rowan-Robinson, Michael (2017). "Michael Rowan-Robinson CV". http://astro.ic.ac.uk/public/mrr/CVshort.07.12.pdf. 
  7. ↑ Griffin, M. J.; Abergel, A.; Abreu, A.; Ade, P. A. R.; André, P.; Augueres, J.-L.; Babbedge, T.; Bae, Y. et al. (2010). "TheHerschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance". Astronomy and Astrophysics 518: L3. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201014519. ISSN 0004-6361. Bibcode: 2010A&A...518L...3G. 
  8. ↑ Ade, P. A. R.; Aghanim, N.; Armitage-Caplan, C.; Arnaud, M.; Ashdown, M.; Atrio-Barandela, F.; Aumont, J.; Baccigalupi, C. et al. (2014). "Planck2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters". Astronomy & Astrophysics 571: A16. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201321591. ISSN 0004-6361. Bibcode: 2014A&A...571A..16P. 
  9. ↑ Michael Rowan-Robinson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  10. ↑ Hughes, David H.; Serjeant, Stephen; Dunlop, James; Rowan-Robinson, Michael; Blain, Andrew; Mann, Robert G.; Ivison, Rob; Peacock, John et al. (1998). "High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey". Nature 394 (6690): 241–247. doi:10.1038/28328. ISSN 0028-0836. Bibcode: 1998Natur.394..241H. 
  11. ↑ Michael., Rowan-Robinson (1985). The cosmological distance ladder : distance and time in the universe. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0716715863. OCLC 10505595. 
  12. ↑ Michael., Rowan-Robinson (1990). Universe. London: Longman. ISBN 9780582044388. OCLC 20964749. 
  13. ↑ Michael., Rowan-Robinson (1993). Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology.. Diane Pub Co. ISBN 9780788194610. OCLC 948365655. 
  14. ↑ Michael., Rowan-Robinson (2001). The nine numbers of the cosmos. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192862167. OCLC 828523172. 
  15. ↑ Michael., Rowan-Robinson (2004). Cosmology (4th ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198527473. OCLC 53156521. 
  16. ↑ "Hoyle Medal and Prize". http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/Subject_Awards/The_Hoyle_Medal_and_Prize/page_23281.html. 
  17. ↑ "Citation for (4599)". http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/ShowCitation.COM?num=4599.  [|permanent dead link|dead link}}]





Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Biography:Michael_Rowan-Robinson&oldid=2880854"