Gerry Gilmore

Gerry Gilmore
Gerry Gilmore presenting first results from the Gaia space mission at 11 November 2016 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society
Born
Gerard Francis Gilmore

(1951-11-07) 7 November 1951 (age 73)[3]
Timaru, New Zealand[3]
Alma mater
Known forDiscovery of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy[4]
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisObservational extragalactic astronomy: an investigation of southern quasars and related objects (1979)
Doctoral advisorKen Fea[2]
Websiteast.cam.ac.uk/~gil

Gerard Francis Gilmore FRS[1] FRAS FInstP (born 7 November 1951) is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Philosophy, in the Institute of Astronomy, at the University of Cambridge.[5][6] His research has centred on studying stars in the Galaxy to understand its structure and evolutionary history.[4][7][8][9]

  1. ^ a b "Professor Gerard F Gilmore FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 9 June 2015.
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  3. ^ a b "GILMORE, Prof. Gerard Francis". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b Ibata, R. A.; Gilmore, G.; Irwin, M. J. (1994). "A dwarf satellite galaxy in Sagittarius". Nature. 370 (6486): 194. Bibcode:1994Natur.370..194I. doi:10.1038/370194a0. S2CID 4335789.
  5. ^ "Gerry Gilmore". Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. Retrieved 19 November 2016. Institutional personal home page.
  6. ^ "Gerard Gilmore". ORCID. Retrieved 19 November 2016. ORCID database record: ID 0000-0003-4632-0213.
  7. ^ Gerry Gilmore's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Kroupa, P.; Tout, C. A.; Gilmore, G. (1993). "The distribution of low-mass stars in the Galactic disc". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 262 (3): 545. Bibcode:1993MNRAS.262..545K. doi:10.1093/mnras/262.3.545.
  9. ^ Gilmore, G.; Reid, N. (1983). "New light on faint stars – III. Galactic structure towards the South Pole and the Galactic thick disc". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 202 (4): 1025–1047. Bibcode:1983MNRAS.202.1025G. doi:10.1093/mnras/202.4.1025.