Lennox Cowie
Lennox Lauchlan Cowie FRS is a British astronomer, and professor at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii.Biography
In 1970 Cowie graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc with first Class Honours. He then graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D in theoretical physics in 1976. As a post-doc, he was at Princeton University, where he became an associate professor in 1979. In 1980, he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech. Beginning in 1980, he was a professor at MIT and from 1983 at the Space Telescope Science Institute. In 1984, Cowie became a professor at Johns Hopkins University and then in 1986 a professor at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, where he was also associate director 1986 to 1997.
Cowie's research deals with the dynamics of interstellar and intergalactic gas. At the University of Hawaii, he investigated, with the telescope on Mauna Kea and with the Hubble Space Telescope, the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe and their formation and early development.Awards and honours
In 1984, Cowie won the Bart J. Bok Prize and in 1985 the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 1991 the American Physical Society, and in 2004 the Royal Society. He was awarded the 2009 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
