Jonathan Tennyson (physicist)
| Jonathan Tennyson | |
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| Born |
Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson 11 May 1955 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Physicist |
Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson FRS (born 11 May 1955) is a British physicist. He is the Massey Professor of Physics (since 2005) and Head of Department at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London.[1][2]
He is the son of Hallam Tennyson, grandson of Sir Charles Tennyson and is the great-great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Education
He was educated at Bootham School,[3] York. He continued his studies at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Sussex.
Work
Tennyson is an author of over 600 scientific papers focusing on applications of molecular spectroscopy to problems in astrophysics, atmospheric science, plasma physics and other fields. He has written a number of popular science articles. He wrote the undergraduate textbook Astronomical Spectroscopy: An Introduction to the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Astronomical Spectra (2005).[1]
Awards and honours
Tennyson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Jonathan Tennyson". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences may incorporate 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 License." Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived February 20, 2016)
- ↑ ‘TENNYSON, Prof. (Charles) Jonathan (Penrose)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013 ; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 17 Dec 2013
- ↑ Bootham Old Scholars Association (2011). Bootham School Register. York, England: BOSA.
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