Tom Marsh (astronomer) explained

Tom Marsh
Birth Name:	Thomas Richard Marsh
Birth Place:	Old Windsor, England, UK
Death Place:	Atacama Desert, Chile
Alma Mater:	St Paul's School, London Queens' College, Cambridge
Employer:	Royal Observatory, Greenwich Space Telescope Science Institute University of Oxford University of Southampton University of Warwick

Thomas Richard Marsh (1961–2022) was a British astronomer and astrophysicist. His research topics included the accretion and evolution of binary star systems.^[1] He was awarded the Herschel Medal in 2018 for his development of doppler tomography which he used to study compact binary stars.

International and public engagement

Marsh worked to bring astronomy to less affluent countries and maintained a strong link with Thailand. This enabled astronomers there to use his high-speed cameras and be part of these international endeavours. He also worked with amateur astronomers, and one of his high-profile papers resulted from an initial observation by an amateur astronomer that he followed up.^[2]

He went missing on 16 September 2022 while hiking during an observing visit to La Silla Observatory in Chile, and his body was found in the Atacama Desert on 10 November 2022.^[3]

See also

• List of solved missing person cases
• List of unsolved deaths

External links

• BBC News – Professor Tom Marsh explains the supermoon of November 2016

Notes and References

1. Web site: Simion @Yonescat . Florin . Professor Tom Marsh . 2022-12-15 . The Royal Astronomical Society . en.
2. Web site: Professor Tom Marsh . 2022-12-15 . warwick.ac.uk.
3. News: 2022-11-18 . Body confirmed as Warwick University professor missing in Chile . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-11-28.