James Dunlop (astronomer)

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Jim Dunlop
FRS FRSE FInstP
Dunlop in 2016
Born
James Scott Dunlop
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Awards
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ThesisThe high-redshift evolution of radio galaxies and quasars (1987)
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James Scott Dunlop FRS FRSE FInstP[3][4] is a Scottish astronomer and academic. He is Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy at the Institute for Astronomy, an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.[1][5]

Education and early life[edit]

Dunlop was born and raised on the Clyde coast. He studied physics at the University of Dundee, before moving to the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a PhD in astrophysics in 1988 for research on redshift in radio galaxies and quasars.[6]

Career and research[edit]

After seven years working in England (where he helped establish the astrophysics group at Liverpool John Moores University[2]) he returned to Edinburgh[when?] and has worked at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh ever since[when?], apart from two periods in Vancouver. From 2004-2008 and 2013-2019 he was Head of the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy (IfA), and in 2019 he became Head of Edinburgh's School of Physics & Astronomy.[3]

Dunlop is an observational cosmologist who uses the world's largest telescopes (including telescopes in space such as the Hubble Space Telescope[7]) to study the chronology of the universe back to the formation and birth of the first galaxies.[3] His research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC),[8] a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and the European Research Council.[3]

Awards and honours[edit]

Dunlop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016,[3] a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP),[when?] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007.[4] He received the George Darwin Lectureship in 2014 and the Herschel Medal in 2016, both from the Royal Astronomical Society.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b James Dunlop publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Dunlop, James Scott (1996). "High Redshift Radio Galaxies". Examining the Big Bang and Diffuse Background Radiations. pp. 79–87. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-0145-2_8. ISBN 9780792338154.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Anon (2016). "Professor James S. Dunlop FRS". London: Royal Society royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 29 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ a b "Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows as of 2016-05-13" (PDF). Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh royalsoced.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2016.
  5. ^ James Dunlop publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Dunlop, James Scott (1987). The high-redshift evolution of radio galaxies and quasars (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. OCLC 22336169. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.381665.
  7. ^ Hughes, David H.; Serjeant, Stephen; Dunlop, James; Rowan-Robinson, Michael; Blain, Andrew; Mann, Robert G.; Ivison, Rob; Peacock, John; Efstathiou, Andreas; Gear, Walter; Oliver, Seb; Lawrence, Andy; Longair, Malcolm; Goldschmidt, Pippa; Jenness, Tim (1998). "High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey". Nature. 394 (6690): 241–247. arXiv:astro-ph/9806297. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..241H. doi:10.1038/28328. S2CID 4428890.
  8. ^ "UK Government grants awarded to James Dunlop". Swindon: Research Councils UK rcuk.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015.
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