Malcolm Longair

Malcolm Longair
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Malcolm Longair in 2013 at the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee (JSTAC), held at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore. Portrait by Mark McCaughrean of the European Space Agency
Born
Malcolm Sim Longair

(1941-05-18) 18 May 1941 (age 83)[1]
Dundee, Scotland
EducationMorgan Academy
Alma mater
Spouse
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(m. 1975)​
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AwardsBritannica Award (1986)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsNatural philosophy
Institutions
ThesisThe evolution of radio galaxies (1967)
Doctoral advisorMartin Ryle[2]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/longairm

Malcolm Sim Longair (born 18 May 1941)[1] is a British physicist. From 1991 to 2008 he was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.[5][6][7][8] Since 2016 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.[9]

  1. ^ a b c d Anon (2017) "Longair, Prof. Malcolm Sim". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.24899 (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c Malcolm Longair at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Dunlop, James Scott (1987). The high-redshift evolution of radio galaxies and quasars (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. OCLC 22336169. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.381665.
  4. ^ Lilly, Simon (1983). Evolution of radio galaxies (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.347938.
  5. ^ Malcolm Longair at IMDb
  6. ^ Hughes, David H.; Serjeant, Stephen; Dunlop, James; Rowan-Robinson, Michael; Blain, Andrew; Mann, Robert G.; Ivison, Rob; Peacock, John; Efstathiou, Andreas; Gear, Walter; Oliver, Seb; Lawrence, Andy; Longair, Malcolm; Goldschmidt, Pippa; Jenness, Tim (1998). "High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey". Nature. 394 (6690): 241–247. arXiv:astro-ph/9806297. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..241H. doi:10.1038/28328. S2CID 4428890.
  7. ^ Malcolm Longair publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ "Emeritus Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy". phy.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016.
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