Michael Ovenden
Michael William Ovenden | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 21, 1926 Cambridge University |
| Occupation | astronomer |
| Years active | 1953–1985 |
Michael William Ovenden
FRSE FRAS (1926 – 1987) was a 20th-century British astronomer
who was President of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow and Professor of Astronomy at University of British Columbia.
Life
He was born on 21 May 1926 in the
Cambridge University
where he received an MA.
In 1953 he began lecturing in Astronomy at
Glasgow University
being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1964.
In 1964 he was elected a Fellow of the
In 1966 he emigrated to Canada to take the role as Professor of Astronomy at the University of British Columbia.
He retired in 1985 due to ill-health and died of a heart attack on 15 March 1987 in Vancouver in Canada.
Publications
- Recent Advances in Science (1952)
- The Deflection of Light by the Solar Gravitational Field (1952)
- Looking at the Stars (1957)
- Artificial Satellites (1960)
- Life in the Universe (1962)
- On the Satellite Capture Problem (1975) with John Byl
See also
References
- Bibcode:1988QJRAS..29...90R.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
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