George Darwin Lectureship
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The George Darwin Lectureship is an award of the Royal Astronomical Society
. The George Darwin Lecture is given annually, by a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker', on a topic in astronomy or astrophysics. The speaker may be based in the UK or overseas.
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...
. The George Darwin Lecture is given annually, by a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker', on a topic in astronomy or astrophysics. The speaker may be based in the UK or overseas.
George Darwin Lecturers
- 2011 : Michael TurnerMichael Turner (cosmologist)Michael S. Turner is a theoretical cosmologist, who coined the term dark energy.He is the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and was formerly the Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation...
: Connecting quarks to the cosmos - 2010 : Carlos FrenkCarlos FrenkProfessor Carlos Silvestre Frenk is a Mexican-British cosmologist. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation....
: The Small-Scale Structure of the Universe - 2009 : Neil GehrelsNeil GehrelsNeil Gehrels is an astrophysicist specializing in the field of Gamma-ray astronomy. He graduated in 1976 with Bachelor's degrees in music and physics from the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1982 from the California Institute of Technology. He is married to Ellen...
: SWIFT and its results - 2008 : Alan Watson : The Birth of Cosmic Ray Astronomy on the Argentine Pampas
- 2007 : Reinhard GenzelReinhard GenzelReinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist.-Life:Genzel studied physics at the University of Bonn where he did his PhD in 1978 and, in the same year, his OhD thesis on radioastronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy...
: The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way - 2006 : Michael Werner : The Spitzer Space Telescope: Probing the universe with Infrared Eyes
- 2005 : Joseph Silk : The Dark Side of the Universe
- 2004 : Mike Edmonds : The Elemental Universe
- 2003 : Anneila SargentAnneila SargentAnneila Sargent is a Scottish–American astronomer, who specializes in star formation.-Biography:...
: The Formation of Planetary Systems - 2002 : Ramesh Narayan : Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon
- 2001 : Wendy Freedman : The Expansion Rate of the Universe
- 2000 : Kip ThorneKip ThorneKip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists...
: Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window onto the Universe. - 1999 : Geoff Marcy : Extrasolar Planets
- 1998 : Michael Perryman : A Stereoscopic View of the Galaxy
- 1997 : Simon WhiteSimon WhiteProfessor Simon David Manton White, FRS is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.- Life :...
: The Formation of Galaxies - 1996 : Andrew Fabian : Broad Iron Lines from AGN: Test of Strong Gravity
- 1995 : Bohdan PaczyńskiBohdan PaczynskiBohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....
: Gravitational micro-lensing and the search for dark matter - 1994 : Scott TremaineScott TremaineScott Duncan Tremaine is a Canadian-born astrophysicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences. Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's leading astrophysicists for his contributions to the theory of solar system...
: Is the Solar System Stable? - 1993 : Riccardo GiacconiRiccardo GiacconiRiccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :...
: Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope - 1992 : John Barrow : Unprincipled Cosmology
- 1991 : Sandra Faber : How galaxies (probably) formed
- 1990 : Andre Maeder : Massive Stars in Galaxies
- 1989 : Roger BlandfordRoger BlandfordRoger David Blandford FRS is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
: Gravitational Lenses - 1988 : Roger TaylerRoger TaylerRoger John Tayler OBE FRS was a British astronomer. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. He wrote a number of textbooks used by students world-wide...
: The Sun as a Star - 1987 : Wal Sargent : Observing the evolution of large scale structure in the Universe
- 1986 : Gerald Neugebauer : Infrared astronomy
- 1985 : Robert WilsonRobert Wilson (astronomer)Sir Robert Wilson FRS, CBE, Kt, was the son of a Durham miner. He studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh, where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra...
: A perspective of ultraviolet astronomy - 1984 : Icko IbenIcko IbenIcko Iben, Jr. is an American astronomer and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Iben received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1958...
: The life of an intermediate mass star - in isolation/in a close binary