|thesis_title = The evolution of radio galaxies
|thesis_year = 1967
| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648088
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|prizes = Britannica Award (1986) is a British physicist. From 1991 to 2008 he was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Since 2016 he has been editor-in-chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. and educated at Morgan Academy, Dundee, Scotland. supervised by Martin Ryle. and has authored or co-authored biographies of John E. Baldwin, Vitaly Ginzburg, Brian Pippard, Geoffrey Burbidge and David J. C. MacKay.
During his career, he supervised numerous PhD students including Jim Dunlop,
- 1995 - Chairman of the Space Telescope Science Institute Council for 1995–6.
- 1996 - President of the Royal Astronomical Society 1996–8.
- 2000 - Appointed CBE in the 2000 New Year Honours List.
- 2004 - Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
Personal life
Since 1975, Longhair has been married to Deborah Howard, an architectural historian. Together they have two children.
Selected publications
;Books
- 2nd: pbk, 1992, 440pp.,
- revised and enlarged 2nd edition: 2003, 588pp.,
;Papers:
he had published 298 papers.
References
External links
- A talk on James Clerk Maxwell as part of the International Year of Light Event Launch.
- TALK - Ryle and Hewish - 50 and 100 Year Anniversaries [Radio Astrophysics and the Rise of High Energy Astrophysics]