A leading researcher on galaxies will present the annual Karl G. Jansky Lecture on Friday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. The lecture, sponsored by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, will be in New Mexico Tech's Workman Center, room 101. It is free and the public is invited.
The Jansky Lecturer is Professor Anthony Readhead of the California Institute of Technology. This year's public lecture is entitled "The Central Engines that Power Active Galaxies."
Readhead studied physics and mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He continued his education in England at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he conducted his Ph.D. research under Anthony Hewish, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics.
From 1981-86, Readhead was the Director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. He is a leading researcher on active galaxies -- the types of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Since the late 1970s, he also has made significant contributions to our understanding of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, the remnant of the Big Bang. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts.
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