Lennox Cowie

Lennox Lauchlan Cowie (born October 18, 1950 in Jedburgh , Scotland ) is a British astronomer.

Cowie studied at the University of Edinburgh (Bachelor in 1969) and received a PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 1976 . He was a post-doctoral student at Princeton University , where he became an associate professor in 1979. In 1980 he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech . From 1980 he was Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1983 at the Space Telescope Science Institute . In 1983 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1984 he became a professor at Johns Hopkins University and from 1986 he was at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii in Manoa , where he was deputy director until 1997.

He dealt with dynamics of interstellar and intergalactic gas. At the University of Hawaii, he used the telescopes on Mauna Kea and the Hubble Space Telescope to search for the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe and investigated their formation and early development.

In 2009 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics . In 1983 he received the Bart J. Bok Prize at Harvard and in 1985 the Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society . In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , the American Physical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society .

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1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004