Bill Napier

William M. Napier or Bill Napier (born June 29, 1940 in Perth / Scotland ) is an asteroid researcher and author . Napier's research deals with the physical and chemical properties of interstellar dust and the effects of meteorite impacts on the earth. The asteroid (7096) Napier is named after him. Napier is also the author of numerous academic and popular science books.

Life

Napier studied at the University of Glasgow . From 1967 to 1992 he was an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh . From 1994 to 1996, he returned to the University of Glasgow, doing research. In 2001 he became an Honorary Professor at the Department of Astrobiology at the University of Cardiff and works at the Armagh Observatory .

Notoriety acquired William M. Napier by - together with the astrophysicists and astronomers Victor Clube and other scientists developed - Theory of Coherent catastrophism (Engl .: coherent catastrophism ) which periodic Impacts from comets requires or comet fragments on Earth. Such impact events are said to have influenced the history of mankind and civilization.

bibliography

The revelation , Wunderlich, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-8052-0713-1 .
Nemesis , Wunderlich, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-8052-0663-1 .
The Origin of Comets (with SVM Clube and ME Bailey), Pergamon Press, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-08-034858-0 .
The 77th degree , Knaur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-63334-2 .
The Lure , Headline Publ. Group, London 2002, ISBN 978-0-7472-6727-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Brief curriculum vitae at the Institute for Astrobiology ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
^ Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. (1997). Minor Planet Circulars , Feb. 22. ISSN 0736-6884 .
^ DJ Asher, SVM Clube, WN Napier and DI Steel (1994): Coherent Catastrophism. Vistas in Astronomy, 38 (1), 1-27; bibcode : 1994VA ..... 38 .... 1A ; for a popular science introduction in English, see online: Philip R. Burns, " Clube and Napier: Coherent Catastrophism . English. Online at www.pibburns.com, accessed June 9, 2013.

Web links

Literature by and about Bill Napier in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Napier, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Napier, William M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British asteroid explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Perth , Scotland

[1] Brief curriculum vitae at the Institute for Astrobiology ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. (1997). Minor Planet Circulars , Feb. 22. ISSN 0736-6884 .

[3] DJ Asher, SVM Clube, WN Napier and DI Steel (1994): Coherent Catastrophism. Vistas in Astronomy, 38 (1), 1-27; bibcode : 1994VA ..... 38 .... 1A ; for a popular science introduction in English, see online: Philip R. Burns, " Clube and Napier: Coherent Catastrophism . English. Online at www.pibburns.com, accessed June 9, 2013.