Phil Diamond Explained

Phil Diamond
Birth Name:Philip John Diamond
Birth Date:18 February 1958[1]
Birth Place:Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Citizenship:UK
Nationality:British
Fields:Radio astronomy
Thesis Title:MERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643586958
Thesis Year:1982

Philip John Diamond is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He was the director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics from 1 October 2006 until 2010. He was the Chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Sciences Division from 1 June 2010[2] and in October 2012 he left CSIRO to become the Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation.[3] [4]

Education

Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds (Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a PhD in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and OH/IR stars.[1] [5]

Research

Diamond's research focuses on astrophysical masers.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Honours and awards

Diamond was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to global radio astronomy.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DIAMOND, Dr Philip John . Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press .
  2. Web site: Dr Phil Diamond . . 28 May 2010 . 12 March 2015.
  3. 10.1117/2.3201407.12. Philip Diamond plenary: The Square Kilometre Array: A Physics Machine for the 21st Century. SPIE Newsroom. 2014. Spie.
  4. Web site: New leader for Australia's astronomy and space science research . . 31 January 2013 . 12 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131018220436/http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/New-leader-for-Australias-astronomy-and-space-science-research.aspx . 18 October 2013 .
  5. PhD . Philip John. Diamond . MERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars . . 1982 . 643586958. Phil Diamond.
  6. Vlemmings . W. H. T. . Diamond . P. J. . Phil Diamond. Imai . H. . 10.1038/nature04466 . A magnetically collimated jet from an evolved star . Nature . 440 . 7080 . 58–60 . 2006 . 16511488. astro-ph/0603003 . 2006Natur.440...58V . 1899909 .
  7. Herrnstein . J. R. . Moran . J. M. . Greenhill . L. J. . Diamond . P. J. . Inoue . M. . Nakai . N. . Miyoshi . M. . Henkel . C. . Riess#. A. . A geometric distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from orbital motions in a nuclear gas disk. Nature . 400 . 539 . 1999 . 10.1038/22972 . astro-ph/9907013 . 1999Natur.400..539H . 6744. 204995005 .
  8. 10.1038/373127a0. Evidence for a black hole from high rotation velocities in a sub-parsec region of NGC4258. Nature. 373. 6510. 127. 1995. Miyoshi . M. . Moran . J. . Herrnstein . J. . Greenhill . L. . Nakai . N. . Diamond . P. . Inoue . M. . 1995Natur.373..127M. 4336316.
  9. http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Diamond%2CP%0D%0A&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&end_entry_day=&end_entry_mon=&end_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&data_type=SHORT&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 List of published papers
  10. Web site: Awards for New Year 2024 . www.gov.uk . 29 December 2023.

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