Alexander Dalgarno

Alexander Dalgarno

Alexander Dalgarno, born January 5, 1928, is a British physicist who is Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. He was educated in mathematics and atomic physics at University College, London. He was an academic at the Queen's University of Belfast and moved to Harvard in 1967. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

He has made contributions in theoretical chemistry, scattering theory, atmospheric physics atmospheric chemistry and astrophysics.

Known as the “father of molecular astrophysics,” Alexander Dalgarno is also a physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and was formerly the editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.He received his education at University College, London, earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1951. From 1951 through 1967, he rose from assistant lecturer to professor at Queen’s University, Belfast, and then joined the Harvard department of astronomy in 1967.He has held the positions of acting director of Harvard College Observatory, chairman of the department of astronomy, associate director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics. Dalgarno’s research covers three main areas: theoretical atomic and molecular physics, astrophysics and aeronomy (the study of the upper atmosphere). He is author of more than 600 publications. Sir David Bates wrote in 1988 that “There is no greater figure than Alex in the history of atomic physics and its applications.” In the 1950s, he laid the foundations for long-range atomic interaction studies which are of critical importance for today’s interest in Bose-Einstein condensates.His work has been recognized by many awards, including the prize of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, the Davidson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society, the Meggers Award of the Optical Society of America and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Physical Society and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 1998, Asteroid 6941 was named Asteroid Dalgarno.

References

* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Dalgarno/dalgarno-con0.html Interview with Alexander Dalgarno]
* [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805210/17275/frontmatter/9780521017275_frontmatter.pdf A volume horouring Alexander Dalgarno]
* [http://www.iaqms.org/members/IAQMS.member.Dalgarno.html His International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science page]

External links

* http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/hco/astro/people/homepages/dalgarno.html


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