Rosemary Wyse

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Rosemary Wyse
Born (1957-01-26) 26 January 1957 (age 68)
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] She was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2025. [13]

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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. [14] [1] [15] [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. [16] [17] In addition to her research career, Wyse served as the first female President of the Aspen Center for Physics from 2010 to 2013, [18] [11] and served as a Trustee from 2006 to 2010. [19]

Honors and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Rosemary F.G. Wyse Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Johns Hopkins University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 Proffitt, Pamela (1999). Notable Women Scientists. Michigan, United States: Gale. pp.  625. ISBN   0787639001.
  3. ↑ Kordopatis, G.; Recio-Blanco, A.; De Laverny, P.; Bijaoui, A.; Hill, V.; Gilmore, G.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Ordenovic, C. (2011). "Automatic stellar spectra parameterisation in the IR Ca ii triplet region". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 535: A106. arXiv: 1109.6237 . Bibcode:2011A&A...535A.106K. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117372. S2CID   56398301.
  4. ↑ "Loading..." pagerankstudio.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2011.
  5. ↑ "Hubble Heritage". stsci.edu.
  6. ↑ Rosemary Wyse's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ↑ Belokurov, V.; Zucker, D. B.; Evans, N. W.; Kleyna, J. T.; Koposov, S.; Hodgkin, S. T.; Irwin, M. J.; Gilmore, G.; Wilkinson, M. I.; Fellhauer, M.; Bramich, D. M.; Hewett, P. C.; Vidrih, S.; De Jong, J. T. A.; Smith, J. A.; Rix, H. -W.; Bell, E. F.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Newberg, H. J.; Mayeur, P. A.; Yanny, B.; Rockosi, C. M.; Gnedin, O. Y.; Schneider, D. P.; Beers, T. C.; Barentine, J. C.; Brewington, H.; Brinkmann, J.; Harvanek, M.; Kleinman, S. J. (2007). "Cats and Dogs, Hair and a Hero: A Quintet of New Milky Way Companions". The Astrophysical Journal. 654 (2): 897. arXiv: astro-ph/0608448 . Bibcode:2007ApJ...654..897B. doi:10.1086/509718. S2CID   18617277.
  8. ↑ Belokurov, V.; Zucker, D. B.; Evans, N. W.; Gilmore, G.; Vidrih, S.; Bramich, D. M.; Newberg, H. J.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Irwin, M. J.; Fellhauer, M.; Hewett, P. C.; Walton, N. A.; Wilkinson, M. I.; Cole, N.; Yanny, B.; Rockosi, C. M.; Beers, T. C.; Bell, E. F.; Brinkmann, J.; Ivezić, Ž.; Lupton, R. (2006). "The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and Its Siblings". The Astrophysical Journal. 642 (2): L137. arXiv: astro-ph/0605025 . Bibcode:2006ApJ...642L.137B. doi:10.1086/504797. S2CID   1774643.
  9. ↑ Yanny, B.; Rockosi, C.; Newberg, H. J.; Knapp, G. R.; Adelman-Mccarthy, J. K.; Alcorn, B.; Allam, S.; Prieto, C. A.; An, D.; Anderson, K. S. J.; Anderson, S.; Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.; Bastian, S.; Beers, T. C.; Bell, E.; Belokurov, V.; Bizyaev, D.; Blythe, N.; Bochanski, J. J.; Boroski, W. N.; Brinchmann, J.; Brinkmann, J.; Brewington, H.; Carey, L.; Cudworth, K. M.; Evans, M.; Evans, N. W.; Gates, E.; Gänsicke, B. T.; et al. (2009). "SEGUE: A SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF 240,000 STARS WITHg= 14-20". The Astronomical Journal. 137 (5): 4377. arXiv: 0902.1781 . Bibcode:2009AJ....137.4377Y. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4377. S2CID   39279981.
  10. ↑ Smith, M. C.; Ruchti, G. R.; Helmi, A.; Wyse, R. F. G.; Fulbright, J. P.; Freeman, K. C.; Navarro, J. F.; Seabroke, G. M.; Steinmetz, M.; Williams, M.; Bienayme, O.; Binney, J.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Dehnen, W.; Gibson, B. K.; Gilmore, G.; Grebel, E. K.; Munari, U.; Parker, Q. A.; Scholz, R. – D.; Siebert, A.; Watson, F. G.; Zwitter, T. (2007). "The RAVE survey: Constraining the local Galactic escape speed". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 379 (2): 755. arXiv: astro-ph/0611671 . Bibcode:2007MNRAS.379..755S. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11964.x . S2CID   14055245.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Women's History Month - Professor Rosemary Wyse". www.qmul.ac.uk. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  12. ↑ "Rosemary F.G. Wyse". Physics & Astronomy. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  13. ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Elects Members and International Members - NAS". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
  14. ↑ Wyse, Rosemary F. G. (1982). The formation and evolution of galaxies (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC   53486320.
  15. ↑ "Professor Rosemary F.G. Wyse". Johns Hopkins University. 8 February 2013. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015.
  16. ↑ Kos, J; Zwitter, T; Wyse, R; Bienaymé, O; Binney, J; Bland-Hawthorn, J; Freeman, K; Gibson, B. K.; Gilmore, G; Grebel, E. K.; Helmi, A; Kordopatis, G; Munari, U; Navarro, J; Parker, Q; Reid, W. A.; Seabroke, G; Sharma, S; Siebert, A; Siviero, A; Steinmetz, M; Watson, F. G.; Williams, M. E. (2014). "Interstellar medium. Pseudo-three-dimensional maps of the diffuse interstellar band at 862 nm". Science. 345 (6198): 791–5. arXiv: 1408.4120 . Bibcode:2014Sci...345..791K. doi:10.1126/science.1253171. PMID   25124434. S2CID   9947874.
  17. ↑ Wyse, R (2003). "Astronomy. Galactic encounters". Science. 301 (5636): 1055–7. doi:10.1126/science.1086836. PMID   12933998. S2CID   21541451.
  18. ↑ "Aspen Center for Physics". www.aspenphys.org. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  19. ↑ "Aspen Center for Physics". www.aspenphys.org. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  20. ↑ "Amelia Earhart Fellowship". www.zonta.org. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  21. ↑ "US research fellowship for post-doctoral scientists". ESU. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  22. ↑ "Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy". American Astronomical Society . Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  23. ↑ "Blaauw lecture - Public outreach events - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - University of Groningen". www.rug.nl. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  24. ↑ "Blaauw professors". Kapteyn Astronomical Institute. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  25. ↑ "Brouwer Award for Dynamical Astronomy Goes to Rosemary Wyse" . Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  26. 1 2 3 Wyse, Rosemary F.G. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
  27. ↑ "Prof. Rosemary Wyse Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society". Physics & Astronomy. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  28. ↑ American Astronomical Society. "AAS Fellows".
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