- Karl Glazebrook
Karl Glazebrook is an Anglo-Australian astronomer best known for his work on galaxy formation, for playing a key role in developing the
nod and shuffle technique for doing spectroscopy with large telescopes, and for originating the Perl Data Language (PDL ).Glazebrook was born in 1965 in the
United Kingdom , and educated at theUniversity of Cambridge and theUniversity of Edinburgh (PhD 1992). He held post-doctoral appointments at the University of Durham andUniversity of Cambridge before moving to theAnglo-Australian Observatory , where he played a central role in supporting the2dF galaxy survey as its instrument scientist. He moved toJohns Hopkins University in 2000 where he presently a Professor of Astronomy. In 2006 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Astronomy atSwinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been cited over 10,000 times in the literature of astronomy.Glazebrook is co-principal investigator of the
Gemini Deep Deep Survey , which (along with a number of other studies) determined in 2004 that massive galaxies formed surprisingly early in the distant Universe. As a whimsical side-project Glazebrook also determined that the bulk-averaged color of the Universe isCosmic latte . Both pieces of work received wide publicity in the international press. He is also well known for his pioneering work in developing the baryon oscillation technique to use the distribution of galaxies as a probe ofdark energy .Asteroid 10099 Glazebrook was named in his honor.Glazebrook is also known for developing the open-source
Perl Data Language , a perl-based alternative to the commercial IDL.
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