Nick Kaiser

Nicholas Kaiser (born 15 September 1954) is a British cosmologist.[1][2]

Life

Kaiser received his Bachelor's in Physics at Leeds University in 1978, and his Part III in Maths at University of Cambridge in 1979.[1] He obtained his PhD in Astronomy, also at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Martin Rees.[3]

After postdoctoral positions at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Sussex, and University of Cambridge, Kaiser was CITA Professor at the University of Toronto (1988–1997). In 1998 he moved to become Professor at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii.[4] He is now professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Kaiser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.[5]

Works

Kaiser has made major contributions to cosmology:

  • He made the first calculation of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Kaiser 1983);[6]
  • Explained the higher bias of cluster galaxies relative to the matter field (Kaiser 1984);[3]
  • Made a detailed calculation of the statistics of density peaks in the primordial Universe (Bardeen, Kaiser, Silk & Szalay 1986);
  • Introduced the mathematics of redshift-space distortions (Kaiser 1987);[7]
  • Computed the cosmic halo mass function using excursion set theory (Bond, Cole, Efstathiou & Kaiser 1991);
  • First explained the departures of galaxy cluster scaling relations from simple self-similar models (Kaiser 1991); and
  • Performed the first inversion of shear maps from weak gravitational lensing (Kaiser & Squires 1993).[8]

He has written articles on details of cosmological distance measures.

Kaiser was the initiator and Principal Investigator of the PanSTARRS imaging survey of most of the sky.[9]

Awards and honors

Kaiser has won numerous awards and honors including:

References
  1. "IfA CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  2. "16193 Nickaiser (2000 AV207)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  3. "Physics in Canada" (PDF). November 1993. p. 25. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  4. Johnstone, D.; J. Dubinski. "University of Toronto, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8. Annual report 1997. 1999BAAS...31..570J. p. 570". p. 570. Retrieved 16 March 2018 – via Harvard University.
  5. "Nicholas Kaiser, Royal Society". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  6. "Nick Kaiser awarded Royal Astronomical Society's highest honor – University of Hawaiʻi System News". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  7. Maurogordato, S. (1995). Clustering in the Universe: Proceedings of the XXXth Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, March 11–18, 1995. Atlantica Séguier Frontières. p. 145. ISBN 9782863321898. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  8. "Nicholas Kaiser – CIFAR". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  9. "Institute of Advanced Study : Professor Nicholas Kaiser – Durham University". Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  10. "CBP CV" (PDF). Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  11. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  12. "ras.org.uk, Winners of the 2017 awards, medals and prizes – full details". Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  13. "2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize Citation". gruber.yale.edu. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
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