Roger Llewlyn Davies | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Roger_Davies.jpg) Roger Davies presenting at the National Astronomy Meeting 2012 | |
| 7th President of the European Astronomical Society | |
| Assumed office 30 June 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Thierry Courvoisier |
| 87th President of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| In office 2010–2012 | |
| Preceded by | Andrew Fabian |
| Succeeded by | David Southwood |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 January 1954 |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Residence | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | C.D. Mackay |
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Roger Llewelyn Davies (born 13 January 1954) is a British astronomer and cosmologist, one of the so-called Seven Samurai collaboration who discovered an apparent concentration of mass in the Universe called the Great Attractor.[1] He is the Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University.[2] His research interests centre on cosmology and how galaxies form and evolve. He has a longstanding interest in astronomical instruments and telescopes and developed the scientific case for the UK's involvement in the 8m Gemini telescopes project. He has pioneered the use of a new class of astronomical spectrograph to measure the masses and ages of galaxies, as well as search for black holes in their nuclei. He is the founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Astrophysical Surveys which is funded by the Hintze Family Charitable Foundation.
- ^ Lynden-Bell, D.; Faber, S. M.; Burstein, David; Davies, Roger L.; Dressler, Alan; Terlevich, R. J.; Wegner, Gary (March 1988). "Spectroscopy and photometry of elliptical galaxies. V - Galaxy streaming toward the new supergalactic center". The Astrophysical Journal. 326: 19. doi:10.1086/166066.
- ^ "Roger Davies". www2.physics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2020.