John_Kormendy

John Kormendy

John Kormendy

American astronomer

John Kormendy (born June 13, 1948; Graz, Austria),[1] is an American astronomer, currently the Curtis T. Vaughn, Jr. Centennial Chair at University of Texas at Austin.[2][3][4] He is known for the Kormendy relation found in the surface brightness profiles for elliptic galaxies.[5][6]

Honors

He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1970), the Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1988), a Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2006), and External Membership in the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching-by-Munich, Germany (2012).[7] In 2020, Kormendy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[8][9]

References

  1. [1]
    . University of Texas at Austin Kormendy's website http://chandra.as.utexas.edu/jk_public_vita.doc1title=John Kormendy's website. Retrieved 2020-07-10. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. [2]
    "Faculty". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  3. [3]
    "John Kormendy". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
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    "Kormendy, John". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  5. [5]
    The Kormendy Relation, utexas.edu
  6. [6]
    Schneider, Peter (2007). Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology: an introduction. Springer. p. 92. ISBN 9783540331759.
  7. [7]
    "John Kormendy's website". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  8. [8]
    "2020 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. April 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  9. [9]
    "Three UT Austin Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences". April 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-18.


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