James E. Gunn
{{This article is about astrophysicist James Edward Gunn. For the writer James Edwin Gunn, see James Gunn (writer) .}}
James Edward Gunn (born October 21, 1938 ) is an American astrophysicist . He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University .
Life
Gunn received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1965 .
He researched galaxy formation and dark matter . He developed plans for the use of digital cameras for astronomical research, a project that led to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey .
On October 17, 1970, he discovered the periodic comet 65P / Gunn .
literature
- Richard Preston, First Light , New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1987, ISBN 0-87113-200-1 (German: The first light: In search of infinity , from the English by Ilse Utz, Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002 , ISBN 3-426-27011-0 ). In this book, which has achieved cult status in the United States, Preston gives a lively and gripping account of James Gunn and the other astronomers then working at the Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory .
Fonts
- with J. Richard Gott III: On the Infall of Matter into Clusters of Galaxies and Some Effects on Their Evolution, Astrophys. J. , Volume 176, 1972, pp. 1-19
- with others: The Sloan digital sky survey photometric system, Astron. J., Volume 111, 1996, p. 1748
Awards
- 1972 Sloan Research Fellowship
- 1977 election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1977 elected member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1983 MacArthur Fellowship
- 1987 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Rice University
- 1987 election to the American Philosophical Society
- 1988 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
- 1994 Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2001 Petrie Prize Lecture , Canadian Astronomical Society
- 2002 Joseph Weber Prize for Astronomical Instrumentation , American Astronomical Society
- 2002 Distinguished Alumnus Award, California Institute of Technology
- 2004 Name of an asteroid after him: (18243) Gunn
- 2005 Crafoord Prize with James Peebles and Martin Rees
- 2005 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship from the American Astronomical Society
- 2005 Gruber Prize for Cosmology , Peter Gruber Foundation
- 2006 Honorary Degree, University of Portsmouth
- 2008 National Medal of Science
- 2013 Bruce Medal
- 2019 Kyoto Prize for Astrophysics
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gunn, James E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gunn, James Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1938 |