John Kormendy

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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

He 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]

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