Nicholas Kaiser
Nicholas (Nick) Kaiser (born September 15, 1954 ) is a British astronomer whose main field of work is the gravitational lensing effect . He is one of the world's leading experts in this regard. He now works at the University of Hawaii .
Life
Kaiser was born on September 15, 1954. In 1978 he joined the University of Leeds his Bachelor from 1982 he was at the University of Cambridge (with the work "Anisotropy of the Microwave Background Radiation" anisotropy of the microwave background radiation ) at Martin Rees doctorate.
He then worked as a postdoc in 1983 at the University of California, Berkeley , in 1984 at the University of California, Santa Barbara and then again in Berkeley, in 1985 at the University of Sussex and finally again in Cambridge. In April 1988 he became a professor at the University of Toronto . In March 1997 he went to Hawaii.
Kaiser is working on the Pan-STARRS project, for which asteroids that are potentially dangerous for Earth are being observed on a 1.8 m telescope in Hawaii . He is also a scientific advisor to the “lifeboat foundation”, which is committed to protecting mankind from such risks.
Awards and honors
- 1989 Helen Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society
- 1993 Herzberg Medal from the Canadian Association of Physicists
- 1997 Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of Canada
- 2005 namesake for the asteroid (16193) Nickaiser
- 2017 Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2019 Gruber Prize for Cosmology
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Kaiser's areas of work include observational cosmology , galaxy formation , large-scale structure , bulk flows , galaxy clusters and gravitational lenses. In the latter area, it is best known for the Kaiser-Squires inversion , a method for determining the mass distribution in an observation area from measured image distortions. In addition, together with Gordon Squires and Tom J. Broadhurst, he developed the so-called KSB method for evaluating the ellipticities of gravitationally distorted images. For this he developed the imcat computer program .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Emperor, Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaiser, Nick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1954 |