Michael Ovenden

Prof Michael William Ovenden FRSE FRAS (1926 – 1987) was a 20th-century British astronomer who was President of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow and Professor of Astronomy at University of British Columbia.

Michael William Ovenden
BornMay 21, 1926
Muswell Hill, London, United Kingdom
DiedMarch 15, 1987(1987-03-15) (aged 60)
Vancouver, Canada
NationalityBritish
Alma materQueen Mary College, London
Cambridge University
Occupationastronomer
Years active1953–1985

Life

He was born on 21 May 1926 in the Muswell Hill district of north London. His first degree was from Queen Mary College, London in 1947.[1] He then went to Cambridge University where he received an MA.

In 1953 he began lecturing in Astronomy at Glasgow University being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1964.

In 1964 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Peter Alan Sweet, Hermann Bruck, Hugh Butler, and Peter Fellgett.[2]

In 1966 he emigrated to Canada to take the role as Professor of Astronomy at the University of British Columbia.

He retired in 1985 due to ill-health and died of a heart attack on 15 March 1987 in Vancouver in Canada.

Publications
  • Recent Advances in Science (1952)
  • The Deflection of Light by the Solar Gravitational Field (1952)
  • Looking at the Stars (1957)
  • Artificial Satellites (1960)
  • Life in the Universe (1962)
  • On the Satellite Capture Problem (1975) with John Byl
gollark: Yay, now I'm constantly getting swap space alerts from my monitoring system.
gollark: I'll take my rosemary, thank *you*.
gollark: Like I said, the skynet server is getting recompiled to fix a bug, Please Hold On.
gollark: Yep, slight error there, should be fixed in about five minutes while I recompile.
gollark: Put a slash on the end of the skynet2 URL.

References
  1. Roy, A. E. (1988). "Obituary - Ovenden, Michael". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 29: 90. Bibcode:1988QJRAS..29...90R.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-11-17.


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