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Robert Charles Kennicutt, Jr. FRS is an American astronomer. He is currently a professor at Texas A&M University.[2] He is a former Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Astrophysical Journal (1999–2006) and became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics as of 2021.[3][4] His research interests include the structure and evolution of galaxies and star formation in galaxies.[5]

Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr
Born	(1951-09-04) September 4, 1951 (age 71)[1] Baltimore, MD
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Washington
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2007) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2009)
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	Texas A&M University
Thesis	H II regions as extragalactic distance indicators (1978)

Career

He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1973. He was a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Washington, where he received his master's degree in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1978.

Kennicutt formulated a version of the Kennicutt–Schmidt law, which is an empirical relation between the gas density and star formation rate (SFR) in a given region.

Research

Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey

Kennicutt is the principal investigator for the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS), a legacy project that performed a multiwavelength survey of 75 nearby galaxies with the Spitzer Space Telescope.[6]

Honors and awards

He was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in 2007 by the American Astronomical Society. He shared the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Jeremy Mould of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, for their leadership in the definitive measurement of the value of the constant of proportionality in Hubble's Law. He was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for Astronomy in 2019.[7]

He was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[8]

References

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[de] Robert Kennicutt

Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (* 4. September 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland) ist ein US-amerikanischer Astronom. Er ist Plumian Professor of Astronomy an der Universität Cambridge.

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- [en] Robert Kennicutt

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[fr] Robert Kennicutt

Robert Charles Kennicutt est un astrophysicien américain né le 4 septembre 1951 à Baltimore. Il est professeur plumien à l'université de Cambridge et rédacteur en chef de l'Astrophysical Journal. Ses thèmes de recherche incluent la structure et l'évolution des galaxies et la formation d'étoiles dans les galaxies.

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[ru] Кенникутт, Роберт

Роберт Кенникутт (англ. Robert Charles Kennicutt, Jr.; род. 4 сентября 1951, Балтимор, Мэриленд) — американский астроном и астрофизик, специалист по наблюдательной внегалактической астрономии, образованию звёзд и галактик. Член НАН США (2006) и Лондонского королевского общества (2011). Эмерит-профессор Кембриджского университета, прежде профессор Аризонского университета. Известен законом Кенникатта — Шмидта и своим участием в определении значения постоянной Хаббла[2].

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