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Leonard Culhane1937—
研究者
Leonard John Celistus Culhane FRS is an Irish-born British astronomer, former director of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London.
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- 出生
- 1937 年 10 月 14 日
- 国籍
- 英国
- 职业
- 天文学家、研究者
- 母语 / 工作语言
- 英语
- 母校
- 伦敦大学学院（哲学博士，1966 年）
- 工作单位
- 伦敦大学学院
所获奖项（2）
- 2007英国皇家天文学会金质奖章
- —英国皇家学会院士
学会与院士
百科正文
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Career
He commenced his academic career as a lecturer at University College, London (1967–1976) with a short break as a researcher in Lockheed Palo Alto Laboratory, California in 1969, rising to be Reader in Physics from 1976 to 1981 and professor of physics from 1981 to 2006. During that time he was deputy director and then director of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (1981–2003). On his retirement in 2006 he became emeritus professor of physics.
His interests lay in the fields of space instrumentation, solar physics, X-ray astronomy and EUV/X-ray spectroscopy.
He was chairman of the European Space Sciences Committee from 1998 to 2002.
Honors and awards
- 1970: elected member of the International Astronomical Union
- 1985: elected fellow, Royal Society of London
- 1991-1994: vice-president, European Space Agency Science Programme Committee
- 1991: elected full member of the International Academy of Astronautics
- 1993: awarded honorary doctorate of science, University of Wroclaw
- 1996: elected foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2001: elected member Academia Europaea
- 2005: Royal Aeronautical Society, Specialist Silver Award and Geoffrey Pardoe Space Prize
- 2007: Awarded Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in astronomy
- 2008: Elected Fellow of University College London
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