| 词条 | Michael William Feast |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Michael William Feast | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1926|12|26}} | birth_place = Deal, Kent, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2019|04|01|1926|12|26}} | death_place = Cape Town, South Africa | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Astronomy | workplaces = {{plainlist|
|}} | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}Michael William Feast (29 December 1926 – 1 April 2019) was a British-South African astronomer. He served as Director of the South African Astronomical Observatory from 1976–1992, then became a professor at the University of Cape Town. His research focussed on the structure of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, and the cosmic distance ladder using variable stars.[2][3] Career and honoursFeast holds the degrees of BSc (Hons) and PhD from London[4] From 1949 to 1951 he worked with Gerhard Herzberg at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, following which from 1952 to 1974 he was at the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria[5] He was also director of the South African Astronomical Observatory from 1976 to 1992.[6] He received the DeBeers Medal[7] from the South African Institute of Physics in 1992 and the Gill Medal from the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa in 1983.[8][9] Feast was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. [10] The University of Cape Town awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1993.[11] Feast was an editor of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[12]His most frequently cited paper (440 times[13]) relates to his pioneering study of the brightest stars in the Magellanic Clouds with Thackeray and Wesselink;[14] see, for example, Hodge (1999).[15] Much of his work has related to the Cepheid period-luminosity relation,[16] for example that on its zero-point as determined via the Hipparcos satellite[17] He died in his sleep on 1 April 2019, aged 92.[1] References1. ^{{cite web | url=https://www.saao.ac.za/the-south-african-astronomical-observatory-celebrates-the-life-of-an-astronomy-giant-professor-michael-william-feast/?fbclid=IwAR3r89erx10qsnQEfS-nhrt82h0k2PkO0ry3HJz6RvyoIRbZuqOXFEjvBVc | title=The South African Astronomical Observatory Celebrates the life of an Astronomy Giant, Professor Michael William Feast | publisher=South African Astronomical Observatory | accessdate=April 3, 2019}} [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]2. ^1 {{cite thesis|title=On the Spectra of Gases Exhibited in the High Voltage Arc|first=Michael|last=Feast|type=PhD|publisher=University of London}} 3. ^1 {{cite conference|title=Introduction|first=Brian |last=Warner |author= |authorlink= |date=1999 |conference=Variable Stars and Galaxies, a Symposium in Honour of Professor Michael W. Feast ..., Conference Series Vol. 30|editor=Warner, B.|publisher= Astronomical Society of the Pacific}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|last=Webb|first=Stephen|title=Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder|date=1999|publisher=Springer|page=155|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntZwxttZF-sC&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 5. ^1 {{cite book|last=Thackeray|first=A.D.|date=1972|title=The Radcliffe Observatory|publisher=The Radcliffe Trust}}. 6. ^1 {{cite web|title=South African Astronomical Observatory|url=http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-obs-saao_suth.html|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928195142/http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/his-obs-saao_suth.html|archivedate=2013-09-28|df=}} 7. ^1 {{cite web|title=Past winners of the De Beers Gold Medal|url=http://www.saip.org.za/index.php/members/statistics/10-public-content/membership/109-de-beers-medal-winners|publisher=South African Institute of Physics|accessdate=March 18, 2013}} 8. ^1 {{cite journal|last=Anon|title=Citation|journal=Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa|volume=42|page=16|date=1983|bibcode = 1983MNSSA..42...16. }} 9. ^1 {{cite web|title=Gill Medal|url=http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/gillmedal.html|publisher=Astronomical Society of South Africa|accessdate=March 18, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503061153/http://assa.saao.ac.za/html/gillmedal.html|archivedate=May 3, 2012|df=}} 10. ^1 {{cite web|title=Royal Society of SA Fellows|url=http://www.royalsocietysa.org.za/?page_id=126|publisher=Royal Society of South Africa|accessdate=March 18, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814021210/http://www.royalsocietysa.org.za/?page_id=126|archivedate=August 14, 2012|df=}} 11. ^1 {{cite web|title=Honorary degrees awarded|url=http://www.uct.ac.za/about/honours/degrees/graduates/|publisher=University of Cape Town|accessdate=March 18, 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304034741/http://www.uct.ac.za/about/honours/degrees/graduates/|archivedate=March 4, 2013|df=}} 12. ^1 {{cite web|title=RAS Committee Members|url=https://www.ras.org.uk/about-the-ras/committees/863-ras-committee-members#mnras|work=RAS website|publisher=Royal Astronomical Society|accessdate=3 September 2013}} 13. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html |title=SAO/NASA ADS Custom Query Form Mon Mar 18 14:32:27 2013 |publisher=Adsabs.harvard.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-03-18}} 14. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Feast|first1=M.W.|last2=Thackeray|first2=A.D.|last3=Wesselink|first3=A.J.|title=The Brightest Stars in the Magellanic Clouds|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=121|pages=337–385|date=1960|bibcode = 1960MNRAS.121..337F|doi=10.1093/mnras/121.4.337}} 15. ^1 {{cite conference|title=Magellanic Cloud Studies, Past and Future|first=Paul |last=Hodge |date=1999 |conference= New Views of the Magellanic Clouds, IAU Symposium 190|editor= Chu, Y.H. |display-editors=etal|volume=190|publisher= IAU|pages=3–7}} 16. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Feast|first1=M.W.|last2=Walker|first2=A.R.|date=1987|title=Cepheids as Distance Indicators|journal=Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics|volume=25|publisher=Annual Reviews Inc|pages=345–375|doi=10.1146/annurev.aa.25.090187.002021|bibcode = 1987ARA&A..25..345F }} 17. ^1 {{cite journal|last1=Feast|first1=M.W.|last2=Catchpole|first2=R.M.|date=1997|title=The Cepheid period-luminosity zero-point from HIPPARCOS trigonometrical parallaxes|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=286|page=L1|doi=10.1093/mnras/286.1.L1|bibcode = 1997MNRAS.286L...1F }} }}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Feast, Michael William}} 5 : 1926 births|2019 deaths|British astronomers|People associated with the University of Cape Town|South African astronomers |
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