Name Ken Freeman Role Astronomer | Residence Canberra, Australia | |
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Born 27 August 1940 (age 83)
Perth, Australia ( 1940-08-27 ) Fields Astronomy and astrophysics Institutions Australian National University Alma mater University of Western Australia, Cambridge University Known for Freeman Law,
and co-authoring the best-selling book, 'Shrouds of the Night'. Notable awards Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1999)
Centenary Medal (2003) Education University of Cambridge, University of Western Australia Awards Centenary Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Books In search of dark matter, The Origin of the Galaxy a, Shrouds of the Night, The Dynamics - Structure, Galaxies and Their Masks Similar People Donald Lynden‑Bell, Ben Moore, Maarten Schmidt | ||
Academic advisor Donald Lynden-Bell | ||
2012 prime minister s prize for science professor ken freeman
Kenneth Charles Freeman (born 27 August 1940) is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist who is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra. He was born in Perth, Australia in 1940, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Western Australia, and graduated with first class honours in applied mathematics in 1962. He then went to Cambridge University for postgraduate work in theoretical astrophysics with Leon Mestel and Donald Lynden-Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1965. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas with Gérard de Vaucouleurs, and a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to Australia in 1967 as a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at Mount Stromlo. Apart from a year in the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen in 1976 and some occasional absences overseas, he has been at Mount Stromlo ever since.
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His research interests are in the formation and dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters, and he is particularly interested in the problem of dark matter in galaxies: he was one of the first to point out that spiral galaxies contain a large fraction of dark matter. He regularly visits the Space Telescope Science Institute as Distinguished Visiting Scientist.
He is very active in supporting graduate students and has acted as primary supervisor for 54 PhD students and seven postdocs. Five of his students have won Hubble Fellowships. He is active in international astronomy, as a division past-president of the International Astronomical Union, and serves on visiting committees for several major astronomical institutions around the world. He has been an invited speaker at 121 international conferences since 1969. He has co-authored a book on dark matter.
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