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
editHe 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
edit- ^ . University of Texas at Austin Kormendy's website http://chandra.as.utexas.edu/jk_public_vita.html1title=John Kormendy's website. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
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- ^ "John Kormendy". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ "Kormendy, John". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ The Kormendy Relation, utexas.edu
- ^ Schneider, Peter (2007). Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology: an introduction. Springer. p. 92. ISBN 9783540331759.
- ^ "John Kormendy's website". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ "2020 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. April 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
- ^ "Three UT Austin Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences". April 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
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