Rosemary Wyse

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Rosemary Wyse
Born (1957-01-26) 26 January 1957 (age 67)
Dundee, Scotland
Alma mater
Awards Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis The formation and evolution of galaxies  (1982)
Academic advisorsBernard Jones [1]
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Rosemary F. G. Wyse (born 26 January 1957 in Dundee, Scotland [2] ) is a Scottish astrophysicist, [3] Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), and Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

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Education

Wyse graduated from Queen Mary University of London in 1977 with a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astrophysics and obtained her PhD in astrophysics in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 1983. [13] [1] [14] [11] Bernard Jones was her academic advisor. [2]

Career

Wyse conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the University of California Berkeley. Her work has primarily been in the fields of galactic formation, composition and evolution. [15] [16] In addition to her research career, Wyse served as the first female President of the Aspen Center for Physics from 2010 to 2013, [17] [11] and served as a Trustee from 2006 to 2010. [18]

Honors and awards

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