Michael Rowan-Robinson
Michael Geoffrey Rowan-Robinson (born July 9, 1942 ) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist ( infrared astronomy ).
Rowan-Robinson studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in 1963 and at the Royal Holloway College of London University with a Master's degree in astrophysics and geology in 1966 and his doctorate (Astrophysics and geology) in 1969. He was from 1969 Lecturer , from 1978 reader and from 1987 professor of astrophysics at Queen Mary College of the University of London and then headed the astrophysics group at Imperial College London (Blackett Laboratory) from 1993 to 2007 .
In 1969, 1971 and 1976 he was visiting scholar at the University of Bologna and 1978/79 at the University of California, Berkeley . Rowan-Robinson deals with extragalactic astronomy in the far infrared and sub-millimeter wavelength range. He is the author of several popular science books and has made frequent radio and television appearances in England.
He was involved in research at the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), the Spitzer Space Telescope (an infrared telescope ), the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (sub-mm on the Mauna Kea, SCUBA Survey), the Herschel Space Telescope (SPIRE), the Planck- Space Telescope (HFI) and since 1977 at the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS, launched 1983). At ISO, he was a member of the Time Allocation Committee from 1993 to 1996, and from 1996 to 2000 a scientist at the photometer and from 1995 to 2004 a senior scientist of the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS). From 1976 to 1979 he was on the Cosmology Committee of the International Astronomical Union .
He was on the committees of the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency (1985 to 1988 as a member of the Astronomy Working Group, 1993 to 1996 time allocation committee for ISO). On the British side, he was on the time allocation committee of the Isaac Newton telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos observatory .
The asteroid (4599) Rowan is named after him.
From 2006 to 2008 he was President of the Royal Astronomical Society , of which he is a Fellow. In 2008 he received the first Hoyle Medal from the Institute of Physics . In 1981 he was Gresham Professor of Astronomy, combined with public lectures at Gresham College . He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP).
He has been married since 1978 and has a daughter and two stepons. He lists poetry, politics, theater, music and golf as hobbies and describes himself as an atheist. He lives in Southwold , Suffolk .
Fonts
- Cosmic landscape: voyages back along the photon's track, Oxford University Press 1979
- The cosmological distance ladder: distance and time in the Universe, Freeman, San Francisco, 1985
- Our universe: an armchair guide, Freeman 1990
- Universe, Longman 1990
- Ripples in the cosmos: a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology, WH Freeman Spectrum, 1993
- The nine numbers of the cosmos, Oxford University Press 2001
- Cosmology, Oxford University Press 2004 (first Clarendon Press 1977)
- Fire and Ice: the nuclear winter, Longman 1985
- Night vision: exploring the infrared universe, Cambridge University Press 2013
Web links
- Emeritus 2008 at Imperial College
- Page at Imperial College
- Biography at Royal Holloway College
- biography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rowan-Robinson, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rowan-Robinson, Michael Geoffrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astrophysicist and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1942 |