Malcolm Longair Explained

Malcolm Longair
Birth Name:Malcolm Sim Longair
Birth Date:1941 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Dundee, Scotland
Field:Natural philosophy
Education:Morgan Academy
Doctoral Advisor:Martin Ryle
Thesis Title:The evolution of radio galaxies
Thesis Year:1967
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648088
Prizes:Britannica Award (1986)

Malcolm Sim Longair (born 18 May 1941)[1] is a British physicist. From 1991 to 2008 he was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.[2] [3] Since 2016 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.

Education

He was born on 18 May 1941,[4] and educated at Morgan Academy, Dundee, Scotland.[1] He graduated in Electronic Physics from Queen's College, Dundee, which later became the University of Dundee, but was then part of the University of St Andrews, in 1963. He became a research student in the Radio Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 1967[5] supervised by Martin Ryle.

Career and research

From 1968 to 1969, he was a Royal Society Exchange Visitor to the Lebedev Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he worked with Vitaly Ginzburg and Yakov Zeldovich.

He held a Fellowship of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 from 1966 to 1968 and was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1967 to 1980. He has held visiting professorships at the California Institute of Technology (1972), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1978), the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (1990) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (1997). From 1980 to 1990, he held the joint posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Regius Professor of Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. He is a Professorial Fellow and Vice-President of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was Deputy Head of the Cavendish Laboratory with special responsibility for the teaching of physics from 1991 to 1997, and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005.

Longair's primary research interests are in the fields of high-energy astrophysics and astrophysical cosmology. He has written eight books and many articles on this work. His most recent publication is the second edition of his Theoretical Concepts in Physics, released in December 2003. His other interests include music, mountain walking (completing the Munros in 2011), art, architecture and golf. he is the editor-in-chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society[6] and has authored or co-authored biographies of John E. Baldwin,[7] Vitaly Ginzburg,[8] Brian Pippard,[9] Geoffrey Burbidge[10] and David J. C. MacKay.[11]

During his career, he supervised numerous PhD students including Jim Dunlop, Stephen Gull, Simon Lilly and John Peacock.

Awards and honours

Longair has received numerous awards, including:

Personal life

Since 1975, Longhair has been married to Deborah Howard, an architectural historian. Together they have two children.[14]

Selected publications

Books[15]
Papers:

he had published 298 papers.[22]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Anon (2017)
  2. Hughes. David H.. Serjeant. Stephen. Dunlop. James. James Dunlop (astronomer). Rowan-Robinson. Michael. Michael Rowan-Robinson. Blain. Andrew. Mann. Robert G.. Ivison. Rob. Peacock. John. Efstathiou. Andreas. Gear. Walter. Oliver. Seb. Lawrence. Andy. Longair. Malcolm. Malcolm Longair. Goldschmidt. Pippa. Jenness. Tim. Nature. 394. 6690. 1998. 241–247. 10.1038/28328. High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey. astro-ph/9806297. 1998Natur.394..241H. 4428890.
  3. Web site: Emeritus Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy . phy.cam.ac.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160604035901/http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/longairm/ . 4 June 2016 .
  4. Web site: Birthday's today . The Telegraph. London . 16 May 2014 . 18 May 2011 . Prof M.S. Longair, astronomer, 70 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140611135315/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2011-5-18.html . 11 June 2014 .
  5. PhD . Malcolm Sim. Longair . The evolution of radio galaxies . University of Cambridge . 1967 . 657635513.
  6. Longair. Malcolm. Editorial. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63. 2017. 1–6. 0080-4606. 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0030. free.
  7. Longair . M. S. . 10.1098/rsbm.2011.0011 . John Evan Baldwin. 6 December 1931 -- 7 December 2010 . . 2011 . 57 . 3–23 . free .
  8. Longair . M. S. . Malcolm Longair. 10.1098/rsbm.2011.0002 . Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg. 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009 . . 57 . 129–146 . 2011 . free .
  9. Longair . M. S. . Malcolm Longair. Waldram . J. R. . 10.1098/rsbm.2009.0014 . Sir Alfred Brian Pippard. 7 September 1920 -- 21 September 2008 . . 55 . 201–220 . 2009 . free .
  10. Longair. Malcolm. Malcolm Longair. Rees. Martin. Martin Rees. Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge. 24 September 1925 – 26 January 2010. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2017. 63. 55–78. 0080-4606. 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0002. free.
  11. Longair. Malcolm. Malcolm Longair. Cates. Michael. Michael Cates. Sir David John Cameron MacKay FRS. 22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2017. 63. 443–465. 0080-4606. 10.1098/rsbm.2017.0013. free.
  12. Web site: Selby Fellowship . science.org.au . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170101162903/https://www.science.org.au/opportunities/travel/travelling-fellowships/selby-fellowship . 1 January 2017 .
  13. Web site: 2004 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117112641/https://royalsociety.org/people/malcolm-longair-11833/ . 2015-11-17 . Professor Malcolm Longair CBE FRS . . London . royalsociety.org. Anon. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
  14. Web site: Longair, Prof. Malcolm Sim, (born 18 May 1941), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1991–2008, Head of Department of Physics, 1998–2005, and Director of Research, since 2008, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1991–2008, now Emeritus . . Oxford University Press . 11 June 2024 . en . 1 December 2023.
  15. Web site: Malcolm Longair . ISAPP2012PARIS : International School on AstroParticle Physics . Sciencesconf.org . 20 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140520044842/http://isapp2012paris.sciencesconf.org/conference/isapp2012paris/Longair.pdf . 20 May 2014 .
  16. 10.1080/00107514.2013.868524. Review of The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology by Malcolm S. Longair. 2014. Ellis. Richard. Richard Ellis (astronomer). Contemporary Physics. 55. 50–51. 125011052.
  17. 2006Obs...126..428H. Book Review: The Cosmic Century. Hughes. David W.. David Hughes (astronomer). The Observatory. 2006. 126. 1195. 428.
  18. 10.1063/1.2814667. Review of Theoretical Concepts in Physics: An Alternative View of Theoretical Reasoning in Physics for Final‐Year Undergraduates by M. S. Longair. 1985. Segrè. Emilio. Emilio Segrè. Physics Today. 38. 8. 65–66. 1985PhT....38h..65L.
  19. 1996MNSSA..55..156G. Our Evolving Universe: Book Review. Glass. I. S.. Ian Glass. Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa. 1996. 55. 156.
  20. 1996IrAJ...23Q.246L. Book Review: Our evolving universe. Irish Astronomical Journal. 1996. 23. 2. 246.
  21. 10.1063/PT.3.3664. Review of Maxwell's Enduring Legacy: A Scientific History of the Cavendish Laboratory. 2017. Zangwill. Andrew. Physics Today. 70. 8. 60–61. 2017PhT....70h..60Z. free.
  22. Web site: List of Publications . Longair . Malcolm S. . 19 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140520051111/http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/peoplefiles/longairm-publications.pdf . 20 May 2014 .

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