Rosemary Wyse
Scottish astrophysicist
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| Intro | Scottish astrophysicist | ||||||
| Places | United Kingdom Scotland | ||||||
| is | Astronomer | ||||||
| Work field | Science | ||||||
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| Birth | 26 January 1957 | ||||||
| Age | 68 years | ||||||
| Star sign | Aquarius | ||||||
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Biography
Rosemary F. G. Wyse FRAS (born 26 January 1957 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish astrophysicist and professor in the physics and astronomy department at Johns Hopkins University.
Education
Wyse graduated from Queen Mary University of London in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Astrophysics and obtained her PhD in Astrophysics in the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 1983. Bernard Jones was her academic advisor.
Career
Wyse conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University and the University of California Berkeley. Her work has primarily been in the fields of galactic formation, composition and evolution.
Honors and awards
- 1986 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society
- 2016 Blaauw professor, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
- 2016 Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society
Wyse is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Astronomical Society.