Person
Haynes, Raymond
- Occupation
- Astrophysicist
Summary
Raymond Haynes is an astrophysicist whose research has ranged from low-frequency radio astronomy and supernova remnants to the role of magnetic fields and the distribution of neutral hydrogen in galaxies. His work resulted in over 300 publications. For over 30 years Haynes was a research scientist with the Australian National Telescope Facility, and coordinated collaborative research programs with Australian and international with facilities such as the Goddard Space Flight Centre, U.S.A. and the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany. Haynes was the lead author of Explorers of the southern sky: the history of Australian astronomy (1997), a key work in the science of astronomy in Australia. Haynes if a Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Australia and the Australian Institute of Physics.
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Chronology
- 1964
- Education - BSc, University of Tasmania
- 1970
- Education - PhD, University of Tasmania
- 1970 - 1972
- Career position - CSIRO Post-doctoral fellowship, University of Cambridge
- 1972 - 2000
- Career position - Research Scientist (later Senior Principal Research Scientist), Australia National Telescope Facility, CSIRO
- 1978
- Award - British Council Senior Fellowship, United Kingdom
- 2000
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Books
- Haynes, Raymond, Haynes, Roslynn, Malin, David and McGee, Richard, Explorers of the Southern Sky: a History of Australian Astronomy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 540 pp. Details
Edited Books
- Haynes, Raymond; and Milne, Douglas eds, The Magellanic Clouds : proceedings of the 148th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Sydney, Australia, July 9-13, 1990 (Dordrecht, The Netherlands; Boston: Kluwer, 1991), 503 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- George, Martin, Orchiston, Wayne and Wielebinski, Richard, 'The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia, 7: Philip Hamilton, Raymond Haynes and the University of Tasmania's Penna Field Station near Hobart', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 20 (1) (2017), 95-111. Details
- Haynes, Roslynn D.; Haynes, Raymond F.; and Kitson, William S., 'The History of Astronomy in Queensland', Vistas in Astronomy, 36 (1993), 231-252. Details
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Created: 24 September 2019, Last modified: 16 September 2022