John Kormendy

John Kormendy is an American astronomer, currently the Curtis T. Vaughn, Jr. Centennial Chair at University of Texas at Austin.[1][2][3] He is known for the Kormendy relation found in the surface brightness profiles for elliptic galaxies.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ "John Kormendy". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Kormendy, John". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ The Kormendy Relation, utexas.edu
  5. ↑ Schneider, Peter (2007). Extragalactic astronomy and cosmology: an introduction. Springer. p. 92.


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