John Kormendy

John Kormendy is an American astronomer, currently the Curtis T. Vaughn, Jr. Centennial Chair at University of Texas at Austin.[1][2][3] He is known for the Kormendy relation found in the surface brightness profiles for elliptic galaxies.[4][5]

Honors

He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1970), the Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1988), a Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2006), and External Membership in the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching-by-Munich, Germany (2012).[6] In 2020, Kormendy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[7][8]

References
  1. "Faculty". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  2. "John Kormendy". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  3. "Kormendy, John". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  4. The Kormendy Relation, utexas.edu
  5. Schneider, Peter (2007). Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology: an introduction. Springer. p. 92. ISBN 9783540331759.
  6. "John Kormendy's website". University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  7. "2020 NAS Election". National Academy of Sciences. April 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  8. "Three UT Austin Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences". April 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-18.


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