J. Richard Fisher
James “Rick” Richard Fisher (born December 10, 1943 in Pittsburgh ) is an American astronomer at the University of Virginia and at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville .
Fisher graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and received his PhD from the University of Maryland in 1972 . He then went to the NRAO's Green Bank Observatory and was part of the team that designed the large Robert C. Byrd Telescope (GBT). From 2005 he was in the Central Research Center of the NRAO in Charlottesville .
He dealt mainly with radio astronomy including antenna design and signal processing . In 1977 he found the Tully-Fisher relationship with R. Brent Tully .
Fonts
- Fisher, Tully: A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics , Volume 54, No. 3, February, 1977, p. 661 ( online )
- with Tully: The Nearby Galaxies Atlas , Cambridge University Press 1987
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| SURNAME | Fisher, J. Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fisher, James Richard (full name); Fisher, Rick Richard (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh |