Andrew Blain

Andrew Blain is a British astronomer and professor at the University of Leicester.^[1] He was previously assistant professor at California Institute of Technology.^[2]

He was chairman of ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC) in 2010,^[3] as well as a member of the HerMES international consortium.^[4] In 2005 he was awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society "for his outstanding contributions to sub-mm and far-IR astronomy."^[5]

Research

Blain's research is on galactic evolution the interstellar medium, and gravitational lensing.^[6]

Works

• The cold universe, Editors Andrew W. Blain, F. Combes, Bruce T. Draine, D. Pfenniger, Yves Revaz, Springer, 2004
  ISBN 978-3-540-40838-3
• "A Spectrographic Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population", Multiwavelength mapping of galaxy formation and evolution: proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Venice, Italy, 13–16 October 2003, Volume 2003, Editors Alvio Renzini, Ralf Bender, Springer, 2005,
  ISBN 978-3-540-25665-6
• "The Nature of Submillimeter Galaxies", Deep millimeter surveys: implications for galaxy formation and evolution, 19–21 June 2000, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Editors James D. Lowenthal, David H. Hughes, World Scientific, 2001
  ISBN 978-981-02-4465-1

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