J. Richard Fisher

J. Richard Fisher

J. Richard Fisher is an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Charlottesville, VA. He, along with R. Brent Tully, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in a paper, "A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies" (published in "Astronomy and Astrophysics", Vol. 54, No. 3, February 1977).

External links

* [http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~rfisher/ J. Richard Fisher's Homepage]


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