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 82)[1]
Dundee, Scotland
Education
Morgan Academy
Alma mater
University of Dundee
University of St Andrews
University of Cambridge
Spouse
Deborah Howard
(m. 1975)
[1]
Awards
Britannica Award (1986)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Natural philosophy
Institutions
University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
Thesis
The evolution of radio galaxies(1967)
Doctoral advisor
Martin Ryle[2]
Doctoral students
Jim Dunlop[3]
Stephen Gull[2]
Simon Lilly[4]
John Peacock[2]
Website
www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/longairm
Malcolm Sim LongairCBE FRS FRSE[5] (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.[6][7][8][9] Since 2016 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.[10]
^ abcdAnon (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
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^ abcMalcolm Longair at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^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.
^Lilly, Simon (1983). Evolution of radio galaxies (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.347938.
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^Malcolm Longair at IMDb
^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.
^Malcolm Longair publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^"Emeritus Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy". phy.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016.
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Malcolm Sim Longair CBE FRS FRSE (born 18 May 1941) is a British physicist. From 1991 to 2008 he was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in...
of the History of Modern Cosmology (2019) which he co-edited with MalcolmLongair. Kragh studied physics and chemistry at the University of Copenhagen...
of the Royal Society are collated by the Editor-in-Chief, currently MalcolmLongair, who succeeded Trevor Stuart in 2016. All contents are freely available...
FRSE 1979–1984 Professor Archie Howie CBE FRS 1989–1997 Professor MalcolmLongair† CBE FRS FRSE 1997–2005 Professor Peter Littlewood FRS 2005–2011 Professor...
these were old, inactive quasars. Meanwhile, in 1967, Martin Ryle and MalcolmLongair suggested that nearly all sources of extra-galactic radio emission...
Fellows of the Royal Society. 51: 87. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2005.0006. Malcolm S. Longair, Cook, Sir Alan Hugh (1922–2004)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
GB-Callsign G3CY. Martin Ryle at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Longair, Malcolm Sim (1967). The evolution of radio galaxies. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis)...
and precedes 3C 324. A further revision by Laing, Julia Riley and MalcolmLongair in 1983, called 3CRR or 3CR², included galaxies which were not detected...
Physics, designed the telescope which discovered the first pulsars MalcolmLongair Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, former head of the Cavendish...
Chris Impey, astronomer James Lind of Windsor, natural philosopher MalcolmLongair, physicist Simon Lilly, astrophysicist, Herschel Medal winner in 2017...
Philosophy of Science Volume 194) ISBN 0-7923-4453-7 1997. Edited by MalcolmLongair; Roger Penrose with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking;...
1983 for research on the evolution of radio galaxies supervised by MalcolmLongair. Following his PhD, Lilly was a SERC/NATO postdoctoral research Fellow...
"Lectures and Seminars Trinity Term 2012 (1) - University of Oxford". Longair, M. S. (October 1985). "The Universe - present, past and future". The Observatory...
Technology, Trumpets and Tunes 5. Scales, Synthesisers and Samplers 1990 MalcolmLongair Origins 1. The Grand Design 2. The Birth of the Stars 3. The Origin...
the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, and Astronomer Royal for Scotland, MalcolmLongair, a native of Dundee. Dr. Patrick Moore also paid another visit to the...
and cancer researcher Peter Lawrence, FRS, developmental biologist MalcolmLongair, physicist Ruth Lynden-Bell, chemist Sir David J. C. MacKay, Regius...
Westminster, London on 26 February 1946. She is married to the physicist MalcolmLongair and they have two grown-up children. The Sacred Home in Renaissance...
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