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John Kormendy
Professor Emeritus
Department of Astronomy
Curtis T. Vaughan, Jr. Centennial Chair in Astronomy (Emeritus)-
B.Sc., University of Toronto, ON, Canada (1970)
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (1976)Research Interests
Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei; structure and dynamics of galaxies; secular evolution of galaxies; dark matter; galaxy formation and evolution.Group Areas
Black Holes & AGN, Secular Evolution, Dark Matter
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Please see http://chandra.as.utexas.edu
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- Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1970)
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1970 - 1971)
- Muhlmann Prize, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1988)
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (1995)
- External Member, Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching-by-Munich, Germany (2012 - )
- National Academy of Sciences (Elected 2020)
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Please see http://chandra.as.utexas.edu
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