Richard Hunstead

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Richard Hunstead
Born
Richard Waller Hunstead

(1943-05-30)30 May 1943
The University of Sydney

Richard Waller Hunstead (30 May 1943 – 30 January 2020)

radio galaxies. In 1995, he was awarded the Robert Ellery Lectureship of the Astronomical Society of Australia in recognition of his outstanding contributions in astronomy. One of 33 Australian Science Citation Laureates (of which only nine are astronomers), he was the author of multiple high impact papers which are frequently cited by other scientists around the world. The minor planet 171429 Hunstead is named in his honour.[3]

Hunstead's most notable achievements included the discovery of the variability of radio sources at low frequencies,

damped Lyman alpha systems.[6][7][8] This subsequently motivated interest in galaxy formation and evolution. More recently, he was involved in a study that showed radio loud quasars have distinct spectroscopic signatures that depend on their orientation and size.[9] In his final years, he led an international team to locate and study the first massive galaxies
formed in the Universe.

Education

Hunstead attended North Sydney Boys High School, on the North Shore of Sydney, graduating in 1960.[10] In 1963, he graduated from Sydney University with a B.Sc (Hons) and in 1972, completed his PhD titled "Studies of selected radio sources"[11] with Bernard Mills as his supervisor, also at Sydney University. He was appointed to the faculty of the University of Sydney in 1974,[1] where he remained until his death.

References

  1. ^ a b "Vale Professor Richard Hunstead". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  2. ^ "HUNSTEAD, Prof. Richard (Dick) Waller". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  3. ^ http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=hunstead;orb=0;cov=0;log=0#elem JPL Small-Body Database Browser (accessed 25 February 2008)
  4. ^ Hunstead, R. W.,1972, Astrophysical Letters, 12, 193–200
  5. Astrophysical Journal
    , 309, 19–32
  6. Astrophysical Journal
    , 348, 48–56
  7. Astrophysical Journal
    , 356, 23–31
  8. Astrophysical Journal
    , 426, 79–96
  9. Astrophysical Journal
    , 452, L95-L98
  10. ^ "The Falcon, 1960" (PDF).
  11. ^ Hunstead, Richard W.; Bhathal, Ragbir (2005). "Richard Hunstead interviewed by Ragbir Bhathal in the Australian astronomers oral history project". Australian Astronomers Oral History Project.
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