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Malcolm Longair (Malcolm Sim Longair) was born on 18 May, 1941 in Dundee, Scotland, is a British physicist. Discover Malcolm Longair's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 18 May 1941
Birthday 18 May
Birthplace Dundee, Scotland
Nationality Scotland

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1851

He held a Fellowship of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 from 1966 to 1968 and was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1967 to 1980.

1941

Malcolm Sim Longair (born 18 May 1941) is a British physicist.

He was born on 18 May 1941, and educated at Morgan Academy, Dundee, Scotland.

1963

He graduated in Electronic Physics from Queen's College, Dundee, which later became the University of Dundee, but was then part of the University of St Andrews, in 1963.

1967

He became a research student in the Radio Astronomy Group of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 1967 supervised by Martin Ryle.

1968

From 1968 to 1969, he was a Royal Society Exchange Visitor to the Lebedev Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he worked with Vitaly Ginzburg and Yakov Zeldovich.

1972

He has held visiting professorships at the California Institute of Technology (1972), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1978), the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (1990) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (1997).

1980

From 1980 to 1990, he held the joint posts of Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Regius Professor of Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

He is a Professorial Fellow and Vice-President of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

1991

From 1991 to 2008 he was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

He was Deputy Head of the Cavendish Laboratory with special responsibility for the teaching of physics from 1991 to 1997, and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005.

Longair's primary research interests are in the fields of high-energy astrophysics and astrophysical cosmology.

He has written eight books and many articles on this work.

2003

His most recent publication is the second edition of his Theoretical Concepts in Physics, released in December 2003.

2011

His other interests include music, mountain walking (completing the Munros in 2011), art, architecture and golf.

he is the editor-in-chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society and has authored or co-authored biographies of John E. Baldwin, Vitaly Ginzburg, Brian Pippard, Geoffrey Burbidge and David J. C. MacKay.

he had published 298 papers.

During his career he supervised numerous PhD students including Jim Dunlop, Stephen Gull, Simon Lilly and John Peacock.

Longair has received numerous awards, including:

2016

Since 2016 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.