Michael Perryman
Michael AC Perryman (born September 21, 1954 in Luton , north London) is a British astronomer.
Perryman received his PhD in theoretical physics and astrophysics with Malcolm Longair at Cambridge University ( Cavendish Laboratory ) in 1979 . As a post-graduate student, he was with James Gunn at the Palomar Observatory , studying radio sources in other areas of the spectrum. Since 1980 he was a senior scientist at ESA in the Netherlands in the Hipparcos project (1981 to 1997) and proposed the successor mission Gaia in 1993 with Lennart Lindegren (involved from 1995 to 2009).
From 1993 to 2009 he was professor for astronomy at the University of Leiden and from 2010 he was professor at the University of Heidelberg and at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. Since 2012 he has also been an adjunct professor at University College Dublin . In 2013 he was visiting professor at Princeton University and in 2011 at Bristol University.
In 1996 he received the Prix Jules Janssen , in 1998 he was George Darwin Lecturer, in 1999 he received the Academy Medal of the Dutch Academy of Sciences and in 2011 the Tycho Brahe Prize . He received an honorary doctorate in Lund in 2010. The asteroid (10969) Perryman was named after him.
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| SURNAME | Perryman, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perryman, Michael AC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luton , North London |