Prof Douglas Gough, FRS's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Douglas Owen
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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8/2/1941
- Foretitle(s)
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Prof
- Surname
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GOUGH
- Style
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Prof Douglas Gough, FRS
- Recreations
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cooking, listening to music
Prof Douglas Gough, FRS's Professional Career
- Career
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res assoc Jt Inst for Laboratory Astrophysics and Dept of Physics and Astrophysics Univ of Colorado 1966-67, sr postdoctoral res assoc Goddard Inst for Space Studies 1967-69; Univ of Cambridge: memb graduate staff Inst of Theoretical Astronomy 1969-73, fell Churchill Coll 1972-, lectr in astronomy and applied mathematics 1973-85, reader in astrophysics 1985-93, prof of theoretical astrophysics 1993-2008, dir Institute of Astronomy 1999-2004; Leverhulme emeritus fell 2008-11, research assoc Univ of Calif Santa Cruz 2010; visiting prof of physics Stanford Univ 1996-; memb Bd of Dirs Møller Centre for Continuing Educn Churchill Coll Cambridge 1992-97; visiting memb Courant Inst of Mathematical Scis 1967-69, astronome titulaire associé Observatoires de France 1977, dir de recherche associé CNRS Observatoire de Nice 1977-78, SRC sr fell 1978-83, professeur associé Univ of Toulouse 1984-85, hon prof of astronomy Queen Mary & Westfield Coll London 1986-2006, fell Jt Inst for Laboratory Astrophysics 1986-, visiting fell Japan Soc for the Promotion of Sci 2005, visiting prof Aarhus Univ 2006; Sir Joseph Larmor lectr Cambridge Philosophical Soc 1988, Wernher von Braun lectr Nat Aeronautics and Space Admin 1991, Morris Loeb lectr in physics Harvard Univ 1993, Bishop lectr Columbia Univ 1996, Halley lectr Univ of Oxford 1996, R J Tayler meml lectr RAS 2000, Colloquium Ehrenfestii Inst Lorentz 2003, Vainu Bappu lectr 2008; second prize Gravity Res Fndn 1973, James Arthur prize lectr Harvard Univ 1982, William Hopkins prize Cambridge Philosophical Soc 1984, George Ellery Hale prize American Astronomical Soc 1995, Eddington medal RAS 2002, Gold Medal RAS 2010; foreign memb Royal Danish Acad of Sciences and Letters 1998; FRAS 1966, FRS 1997, FInstP 1997; Mousquetaire d'Armagnac 2001
Prof Douglas Gough, FRS's Publications
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Problems of Solar and Stellar Oscillations (ed, 1983), Seismology of the Sun and the Distant Stars (ed, 1986), Challenges to Theories of the Structure of Moderate-Mass Stars (jt ed, 1991), Models of Ordinary Astrophysical Matter (jt ed and contrib, 2004), The Scientific Legacy of Fred Hoyle (ed, 2005); author of 300 research papers in scientific jls and books
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