thesis_year work_institution birth_place thesis_title nationality field birth_date residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
1978 institute of astronomy , cambridge baltimore , md h ii regions as extragalactic distance indicators united states astronomy 04 september 1951 united kingdom dannie heineman prize for astrophysics gruber prize in cosmology robert kennicutt
 robert c. kennicutt , jr rensselaer polytechnic institute university of washington
robert kennicutt

robert charles kennicutt , jr. .
frs is an american astronomer .
he is the plumian professor of astronomy at the institute of astronomy in the university of cambridge .
he was formerly editor-in-chief of the astrophysical journal -lrb- 1999 -- 2006 -rrb- .
his research interests include the structure and evolution of galaxies and star formation in galaxies .
he received his bachelor 's degree in physics from rensselaer polytechnic institute in 1973 .
he was a graduate student in astronomy at the university of washington , where he received his master 's degree in 1976 and his ph.d. in 1978 .
he was awarded the dannie heineman prize for astrophysics in 2007 by the american astronomical society .
he shared the 2009 gruber prize in cosmology with wendy freedman of the carnegie institution of washington and jeremy mould of the university of melbourne school of physics , for their leadership in the definitive measurement of the value of the constant of proportionality in hubble 's law .
he was made a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences in 2001 and appointed a fellow of the royal society in 2011 .
kennicutt is most well known for the kennicutt -- schmidt law which is an empirical relation between the gas density and star formation rate -lrb- sfr -rrb- in a given region .
