Robert Kennicutt

Not to be confused with Kennicott.

Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr
Born (1951-09-04) September 4, 1951 (age 73)[1]
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. FRS is an American astronomer. He is currently a professor at Texas A&M University.[2] He is a former Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the 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 and star formation in galaxies.[5]

Career

He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973. He was a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Washington, where he received his master's degree in 1976 and 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 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 2007 by the American Astronomical Society. He shared the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Jeremy Mould of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, for their leadership in the definitive measurement of the value of the constant of proportionality in 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. ^ van Dishoeck, Ewine F.; Kennicutt, Robert C. (18 August 2020). "Introduction". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 58 (1): v–vii. Bibcode:2020ARA&A..58....0V. doi:10.1146/annurev-aa-58-081420-100001.
  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. ^ R. C. Kennicutt, Jr.; L. Armus; G. Bendo; D. Calzetti; D. A. Dale; B. T. Draine; C. W. Engelbracht; K. D. Gordon; et al. (2003). "SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 115 (810): 928–952. arXiv:astro-ph/0305437. Bibcode:2003PASP..115..928K. doi:10.1086/376941. S2CID 16972312.
  7. ^ "The Gold Medal" (PDF). RAS. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  8. ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

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