| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| John Hearnshaw | |
| Birth Name: | John Bernard Hearnshaw |
| Birth Date: | 16 March 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealand |
| Fields: | Astronomy |
| Workplaces: | University of Canterbury |
| Education: | Trinity College, Cambridge University of Cambridge Australian National University University of Canterbury |
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| Awards: | Humboldt Fellowship (1981–82) Murray Geddes Prize from the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (1986) |
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John Bernard Hearnshaw (born 16 March 1946) is a New Zealand astronomer who is Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Canterbury.[1] [2] He served as director of the Mt John University Observatory at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 2008. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and was president of its Commission 30 (on radial velocities) from 1997 to 2000. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. In 2017, he was honoured with a Queen's Birthday honour for his astronomical work.[3] [4] [5] The minor planet 5207 Hearnshaw is named after him.[6]
Notable students include Rebecca Priestley.[7]
. Lutz D. Schmadel. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . 2012-06-10 . . 978-3-642-29718-2 . 424 . en.