Roy Henry Garstang
Roy Henry Garstang (1925–2009) was an English
Family and early life
Garstang was born in
He spent 1945 to 1946 as scientific officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, England and 1946 to 1948 as scientific officer at the Ministry of Works. Returning to Cambridge, he pursued his studies in mathematics receiving an M.A. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1954, under the supervision of D.R. Hartree. His thesis examined atomic transitions in astrophysics. He also received a Sc.D. from Cambridge in Physics and Chemistry in 1983.
Early work
Garstang started working at the Yerkes Observatory while he was still enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Cambridge. During that time, he began to calculate atomic structures and transition probabilities for forbidden transitions, which was of special interest to astrophysicists.
Upon the completion of his Ph.D., he started teaching at the University of London and served as the assistant director for the London Observatory. He also edited The Observatory magazine from 1953 through 1960.[1][2]
In 1964, Garstang headed to Boulder, Colorado to join the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Soon after arriving, he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.[3] He also served as the Director of the Division of Physics and Astro-Geophysics from 1979 to 1980 and the acting Director of the Fiske Planetarium from 1980 to 1981.
During his career, he published over 50 papers, including calculations on neutral
Late career
Later in his career, Garstang began to work on
References
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- ^ a b "Roy Henry Garstang (1925–2009) | American Astronomical Society". aas.org. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- ^ "Sigma Xi University of Colorado". www.colorado.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-11.