Robert Kennicutt

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Not to be confused with Kennicott.

Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr
Born (1951-09-04) September 4, 1951 (age 72)
Baltimore, MD
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
University of Washington
AwardsDannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2007)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsTexas A&M University
Thesis H II regions as extragalactic distance indicators  (1978)

Robert Charles Kennicutt, Jr.

Astrophysical Journal (1999–2006) and became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics as of 2021.[3][4]
His research interests include the structure and evolution of
galaxies.[5]

Career

He received his

Ph.D.
in 1978.

Kennicutt formulated a version of the Kennicutt–Schmidt law, which is an empirical relation between the gas density and star formation rate (SFR) in a given region.

Research

Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey

Kennicutt is the principal investigator for the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), a legacy project that performed a multiwavelength survey of 75 nearby galaxies with the Spitzer Space Telescope.[6]

Honors and awards

He was awarded the

Hubble's Law. He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for Astronomy in 2019.[7]

He was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Robert Charles KENNICUTT". Debretts. Archived from the original on 15 February 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Robert Kennicutt - Faculty Member". 30 September 2019.
  3. doi:10.1146/annurev-aa-58-081420-100001
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  4. ^ "Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Current Editorial Committee". Annual Reviews Directory. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Homepage of Robert Kennicutt". Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2008.
  6. S2CID 16972312
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  7. ^ "The Gold Medal" (PDF). RAS. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  8. ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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