David Axon
David John Axon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Died | 5 April 2012 (aged 61) |
| Alma mater | |
David John Axon (1951 – 5 April 2012) was a British
active galactic nuclei. He was a professor at the University of Hertfordshire and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and at the time of his death was Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex
.
Early life
David Axon was born in
BSc in Physics in 1972.[1] In 1978 he completed his Ph.D. at the same institution under the direction of Arnold Wolfendale.[2] He subsequently held research fellowships at the University of Sussex, University College London and the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge
.
Career
In 1983 Axon was appointed to a faculty position at the
NICMOS near infra-red camera. He returned to Manchester in 1998 but the following year was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Physical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. From 2002–2008 he was Professor and Chair of the Physics Department at RIT.[4]
He maintained a research chair at Hertfordshire.
Contributions
David Axon was a leading expert in the field of astronomical
jets of young stellar objects.[7]
Death
David Axon died in 2012 of an apparent heart attack while visiting RIT.[8]
References
- ^ "Durham University Gazette, XIX (ns), supplement". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ "Durham University Gazette, XXIV (ns) including supplement". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ "Prof David Axon, Sussex School of Maths and Physics". Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "David Axon's homepage, RIT Physics Faculty & Staff". Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ Wilson, A. S., Ward, M. J, Axon, D. J., Elvis, M., and Meurs, E. J. A. (1979), On the identification of the high-latitude X-ray source 2A 1219 + 305, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 187, 109.
- ^ Axon, D. J. and Taylor, K. (1978), M82: the exploding galaxy, Nature, 274, 37.
- ^ Ray, T. P.; Muxlow, T. W. B., Axon, D. J., Brown, A., Corcoran, D., Dyson, J., and Mundt, R. (1997), Large-scale magnetic fields in the outflow from the young stellar object T Tauri S, Nature, 385, 415
- ^ Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. "RIT professor dies". Retrieved 12 April 2012.