Glenn White

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Glenn J. White is Professor of Astronomy at the Open University, UK, and Research Group Leader of the Astronomy Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He carries out research on star formation and on exoplanets.

Scientific career

After studying

University of Stockholm (1998) and the University of Cambridge
(1999). He was involved in the early development of astronomical millimetre and submillimetre wavelength astronomy in the 1970s and 1980s.

He is working on problems in

AKARI mission,[1] which was successfully launched in February 2006, and the Herschel Space Observatory
.

Awards

  • The Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award, 2014 (awarded for the design, construction and delivery of the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) bolometer-based instrument as part of the instrument suite for ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory.)[2]
  • The Sir Arthur Clarke Award, 2013 (awarded for Team working on the HERSCHEL-SPIRE space mission)[3]
  • Daiwa Adrian Prize, 2004 (Co-holder for work on the Japanese AKARI Space mission)[4]
  • The Kelvin Lectureship in Physics, of the British Association, 1991 (awarded for Popularisation of Science)

Media

White is an occasional contributor to the media, including the television programme

The Sky At Night,[5] The Sunday Times[6] and BBC One.[7]

He is a member of the Editorial board of Advances in Astronomy.[8]

References

  1. ^ "ASTRO-F Mission". Akari.open.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  2. ^ Royal Astronomical Society. "Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes - full details". Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  3. ^ The British Interplanetary Society. "Sir Arthur Clarke Awards 2013 Winners". Bis-space.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Bbc.co.uk. Archived
    from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  6. Timesonline.co.uk
    . 3 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  7. ^ "Science/Nature | New 'super-Earth' found in space". BBC News. 25 April 2007. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  8. ^ "Advances in Astronomy — An Open Access Journal". Hindawi.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.

External links

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