Andrew Blain Explained

Andrew Blain
Birth Place:	Liverpool, United Kingdom
Nationality:	British
Fields:	Galactic Evolution, ISM, Gravitational Lensing
Workplaces:	University of Leicester
Awards:	Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy

Andrew Blain is a British astronomer and professor at the University of Leicester.^[1] He was previously assistant professor at California Institute of Technology.^[2] He obtained both his Bachelor's degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge.

He was chairman of ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC) in 2010,^[3] as well as a member of the HerMES international consortium.^[4] In 2005 he was awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society "for his outstanding contributions to sub-mm and far-IR astronomy."^[5]

Research

Blain's research is on galactic evolution, the interstellar medium, and gravitational lensing.^[6]

Works

• The cold universe, Editors Andrew W. Blain, F. Combes, Bruce T. Draine, D. Pfenniger, Yves Revaz, Springer, 2004
• "A Spectrographic Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population", Multiwavelength mapping of galaxy formation and evolution: proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Venice, Italy, 13–16 October 2003, Volume 2003, Editors Alvio Renzini, Ralf Bender, Springer, 2005,
• "The Nature of Submillimeter Galaxies", Deep millimeter surveys: implications for galaxy formation and evolution, 19–21 June 2000, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Editors James D. Lowenthal, David H. Hughes, World Scientific, 2001

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Andrew Blain's Homepage . 2010-06-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100607181603/http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~awb/ . 2010-06-07 .
3. Web site: AlmaNorthAmericanScienceAdvisoryCommittee < ALMA < NRAO Public Wiki.
4. Web site: Team | HerMES . 2010-06-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110817201901/http://hermes.sussex.ac.uk/content/team . 2011-08-17 . dead .
5. Web site: Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy . 2024-02-20 . American Astronomical Society.
6. Web site: Blain . Andrew . Andrew Blain: ResearchGate . 5 March 2024 . ResearchGate.