Jonathan Tennyson (physicist)
| Jonathan Tennyson | |
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| Born |
Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson 11 May 1955 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Alma mater |
University of Cambridge University of Sussex |
| Thesis | Studies in the ab initio calculation of molecular energies. (1980) |
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Website www | |
Charles Jonathan Penrose Tennyson (born 11 May 1955) FRS 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]TENNYSON
Education
He was educated at Bootham School,[3] York. He continued his studies at King's College, Cambridge and the University of Sussex.
Research and career
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]
Personal life
He is the son of Hallam Tennyson, grandson of Sir Charles Tennyson and is the great-great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- ↑ Bootham Old Scholars Association (2011). Bootham School Register. York, England: BOSA.