Thomas G. Phillips

Thomas Gould Phillips
Born(1937-04-18)18 April 1937
Watford, UK[2]
Died6 August 2022 (aged 85)[1]
Pasadena, California, USA[2]
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Astronomy
InstitutionsBell Labs, California Institute of Technology[1]
Thesis Experiments with spin waves and phonons at microwave frequencies  (1964)
Doctoral advisorHarold Max Rosenberg
Doctoral studentsElliott R. Brown, Tom Buttgenbach, Robert J. Schoelkopf

Thomas Gould Phillips was a British-born physicist, who worked primarily in the United States. He was a pioneer in the field of submillimeter astronomy, who both developed new instrumentation and made ground-breaking observations.[1] He oversaw the construction of, and was the first and longest-serving director of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory.[3]

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