Roger Angel

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Born (1941-02-07) February 7, 1941 (age 82)[1]
St. Helens, Lancashire, England[1]

James Roger Prior Angel (born February 7, 1941) is a British-born American astronomer. He is Regents Professor and Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.[2][3]

Education

He graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford, with a BA, in 1963, from California Institute of Technology, with an MA in 1966, and from the University of Oxford, with a D Phil, in 1967.[1]

Career and research

He has taught at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990.[4]

In 1979, he proposed the lobster-eye optics principle for X-rays.[5]

In 2006, Angel proposed sending trillions of autonomous sunshields into space to mitigate the effects of global warming.[6]

On August 23, 2012, Angel and his inventions were the subject of a story on NPR's Morning Edition.[7]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c "Roger Angel | American astronomer | Britannica".
  2. ^ "Roger Angel". Archived from the original on 2010-04-02. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
  3. ^ HighBeam[dead link]
  4. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  5. ^ Hartline, Beverly Karplus (4 January 1980). "Lobster-Eye X-ray Telescope Envisioned". Science. 207 (4426): 47–47. doi:10.1126/science.207.4426.47. ISSN 0036-8075. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  6. ^ Angel, Roger (2006-11-14). "Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (L1)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (46): 17184–17189. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608163103. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1859907. PMID 17085589.
  7. ^ Palca, Joe (2012-08-23). "Telescope Innovator Shines His Genius On New Fields". NPR.
  8. ^ "Fellowships Reward Bright Stars", Associated Press, The Free Lance-Star, Terri Likens, June 19, 1996
  9. ^ "J. Roger P. Angel - Lightweight Mirrors for Astronomical Telescopes". National Inventors Hall of Fame. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
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