Richard Ellis (astronomer)
| Richard Ellis | |
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Richard Ellis at Caltech
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| Born | Richard Salisbury Ellis 25 May 1950 Colwyn Bay, Wales |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions |
University College London (2015–present) European Southern Observatory (on leave from UCL) Caltech (1999–2015) University of Cambridge (1993–1999) Durham University (1974–1993) |
| Alma mater |
University College London University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Stellar abundances and nucleosynthesis (1974) |
| Notable awards |
Bakerian Lecture 1998 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 2011 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared) 2014 Carl Sagan Memorial Prize (shared) 2017 |
Bakerian Lecture 1998
Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) Durham University 2002
Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is Professor of Astrophysics at the University College London, currently on leave as Senior Scientist at the European Southern Observatory. Until recently he was the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He was awarded the 2011 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Ellis read astronomy at University College London and obtained a DPhil at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford in 1974.
After developing a strong research effort at the University of Durham (with two years at the Royal Greenwich Observatory), he was appointed a professor in 1985. In 1993 he moved to the University of Cambridge as the Plumian Professor and became a Professorial Fellow at Magdalene College. He served as Director of the Institute of Astronomy from 1994 to 1999 at which point he moved to Caltech. Shortly after his arrival at Caltech he was appointed as Director of the Palomar Observatory which he later reorganized as the Caltech Optical Observatories taking into account the growing importance of Caltech's role in the Thirty Meter Telescope. After 16 years at Caltech, in September 2015 he returned to Europe via the award of a European Research Council Advanced Research Grant held at University College London (UCL). He negotiated leave from UCL to spend two years at the European Southern Observatory in Munich, Germany where he currently resides.
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