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Glenn J. White is Professor of Astronomy at the Open University, UK, and Research Group Leader of the Astronomy Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He carries out research on star formation and on exoplanets.

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Scientific career

After studying radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory, the University of Manchester and at the University of Kent (1969–1972), he worked for a short period in x-ray astronomy at the University of Leicester, before joining Queen Mary College, University of London in 1976. He was Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of London (1993–2000), Professor of Space Science at the University of Kent (2000–2005), and is Professor of Astronomy at the Open University, a post held jointly with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory since 2005. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Tokyo (1987), the University of Stockholm (1998) and the University of Cambridge (1999). He was involved in the early development of astronomical millimetre and submillimetre wavelength astronomy in the 1970s and 1980s.

He is working on problems in star formation and submillimeter wavelength spectroscopy studies of the gas that forms stars, and has also studied the interaction of radio signals with plants and biological material. He is developing space missions to detect the atmospheres of Earth-like extrasolar planets, such as the European Space Agency's Darwin Mission, and the Japanese Space Agency's AKARI mission, [1] which was successfully launched in February 2006, and the Herschel Space Observatory.

Awards

Media

White is an occasional contributor to the media, including the television programme The Sky At Night , [5] The Sunday Times [6] and BBC One. [7]

He is a member of the Editorial board of Advances in Astronomy. [8]

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References

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  2. ↑ Royal Astronomical Society. "Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes - full details". Archived from the original on 27 October 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  3. ↑ The British Interplanetary Society. "Sir Arthur Clarke Awards 2013 Winners". Bis-space.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "BBC Media Player". Bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "Science". Timesonline.co.uk. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.[ dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Science/Nature | New 'super-Earth' found in space". BBC News. 25 April 2007. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  8. ↑ "Advances in Astronomy — An Open Access Journal". Hindawi.com. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
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