Michael Seaton
| Michael Seaton | |
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| Nascimento | 16 de janeiro de 1923 Bristol |
| Morte | 29 de maio de 2007 (84 anos) |
| Nacionalidade | |
| Prêmios | Medalha de Ouro da RAS (1983), Guthrie Medal and Prize (1984), Medalha Hughes (1992) |
| Carreira científica | |
| Orientador(es)(as) | David Bates |
| Orientado(a)(s) | Paul Davies |
| Campo(s) | Matemática, física, astronomia |
Michael John Seaton (Bristol, 16 de janeiro de 1923 — 29 de maio de 2007) foi um matemático, físico e astrônomo inglês.
Foi a partir de 1963 professor de física da University College London.
Seaton foi de 1979 a 1981 presidente da Royal Astronomical Society.
Recebeu a Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society de 1983, e a Medalha Hughes de 1992.
Ligações externas
- cfa.harvard.edu (PDF, engl.) (52 kB)
- Obituary, The Times, 7 June 2007
- Obituary, The Guardian, 31 August 2007
- Obituary, UCL, September 2007
- Obituary, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 31 December 2007
- Biographical Notes, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, August 2006
- Atomic Physics & Astrophysics Group - section in: From Lardner to Massey, by JW Fox
- Atoms and Astrophysics: Mike Seaton's legacy - Research meeting held at UCL, April 2008
| Precedido por Riccardo Giacconi e Harrie Massey |
Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society 1983 com Fred Whipple |
Sucedido por Keith Runcorn e Jakov Seldovich |
| Precedido por Philip Burton Moon |
Medalha Hughes 1992 |
Sucedido por George Isaak |
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1902: Joseph John Thomson 1903: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf 1904: Joseph Wilson Swan 1905: Augusto Righi 1906: Hertha Marks Ayrton 1907: Ernest Howard Griffiths 1908: Eugen Goldstein 1909: Richard Glazebrook 1910: John Ambrose Fleming 1911: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1912: William Duddell 1913: Alexander Graham Bell 1914: John Sealy Townsend 1915: Paul Langevin 1916: Elihu Thomson 1917: Charles Glover Barkla 1918: Irving Langmuir 1919: Charles Chree 1920: Owen Willans Richardson 1921: Niels Bohr 1922: Francis William Aston 1923: Robert Andrews Millikan 1924: — 1925: Frank Edward Smith 1926: Henry Bradwardine Jackson 1927: William David Coolidge 1928: Maurice de Broglie 1929: Hans Geiger 1930: Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 1931: William Lawrence Bragg 1932: James Chadwick 1933: Edward Appleton 1934: Karl Siegbahn 1935: Clinton Davisson 1936: Walter Hermann Schottky 1937: Ernest Lawrence 1938: John Cockcroft e Ernest Walton 1939: George Paget Thomson 1940: Arthur Holly Compton 1941: Nevill Francis Mott 1942: Enrico Fermi 1943: Marcus Oliphant 1944: George Finch 1945: Basil Schonland 1946: John Randall 1947: Frédéric Joliot-Curie 1948: Robert Watson-Watt 1949: Cecil Powell 1950: Max Born 1951: Hendrik Anthony Kramers 1952: Philip Dee 1953: Edward Bullard 1954: Martin Ryle 1955: Harrie Massey 1956: Frederick Lindemann 1957: Joseph Proudman 1958: Edward Andrade 1959: Brian Pippard 1960: Joseph Pawsey 1961: Alan Cottrell 1962: Brebis Bleaney 1963: Frederic Calland Williams 1964: Abdus Salam 1965: Denys Wilkinson 1966: Nicholas Kemmer 1967: Kurt Mendelssohn 1968: Freeman Dyson 1969: Nicholas Kurti 1970: David Bates 1971: Robert Hanbury Brown 1972: Brian David Josephson 1973: Peter Hirsch 1974: Peter Fowler 1975: Richard Dalitz 1976: Stephen Hawking 1977: Antony Hewish 1978: William Cochran 1979: Robert Williams 1980: Francis Farley 1981: Peter Higgs, Tom Kibble 1982: Drummond Hoyle Matthews e Frederick Vine 1983: John Clive Ward 1984: Roy Kerr 1985: Tony Skyrme 1986: Michael Woolfson 1987: Michael Pepper 1988: Archibald Howie e Michael John Whelan 1989: John Stewart Bell 1990: Thomas George Cowling 1991: Philip Burton Moon 1992: Michael Seaton 1993: George Isaak 1994: Robert G. Chambers 1995: David Shoenberg 1996: Amyand Buckingham 1997: Andrew Lang 1998: Raymond Hide 1999: Alexander Boksenberg 2000: Chintamani Rao 2001: John Pethica 2002: Alexander Dalgarno 2003: Peter Edwards 2004: John Clarke 2005: Keith Moffatt 2006: Michael Kelly 2007: Artur Ekert 2008: Michele Dougherty 2010: Andre Geim 2011: Matthew Rosseinsky 2013: Henning Sirringhaus 2015: George Efstathiou 2017: Peter Bruce 2018: James Durrant 2019: Andrew Cooper 2020: Clare Grey |
