Michael Rowan-Robinson

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Michael Rowan-Robinson is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics and head of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at Imperial College London. From 1981 to 1982, he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at Gresham College.

He is currently the president of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Rowan-Robinson's research interests include: The Spitzer Space Telescope SWIRE project; The European Large Area ISO Survey; The UK SCUBA Survey (see James Clerk Maxwell Telescope); The IRAS PSC Redshift Survey ; the Herschel Space Observatory SPIRE instrument; the Planck Surveyor HFI.

[edit] Asteroid 4599

Asteroid 4599, discovered in 1985 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory, has been renamed "Rowan" to honor Michael Rowan-Robinson. The credit notes that, even though Rowan-Robinson's largest contributions have been in infrared astronomy, he was able to use data from IRAS to set a limit on the number of undiscovered Jupiter-like planets beyond the orbit of Neptune^[1].

[edit] See also

• Gresham Professor of Astronomy

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