Ken Freeman
Australian astronomer · Australia · On the map · Scientists · Born 1940 · age 86
Kenneth Charles Freeman is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist who is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra.
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He was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1940, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Western Australia, and graduated with first class honours in applied mathematics in 1962. He then went to Cambridge University for postgraduate work in theoretical astrophysics with Leon Mestel and Donald Lynden-Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1965. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas with Gérard de Vaucouleurs, and a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to Australia in 1967 as a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at Mount Stromlo. Apart from a year in the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen in 1976 and some occasional absences overseas, he has been at Mount Stromlo ever since.
The same award as Ken
Rodney BaxterBoth received Pawsey Medal
Marc KamionkowskiBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsGeorge WetherillBoth received Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Nicholas KaiserBoth received Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Heinrich HoraBoth received Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
J. Richard BondBoth received Gruber Prize in Cosmology