Walter Gear
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Walter K Gear FLSW is an astrophysicist, professor of physics and head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University. Dr. Gear's research is largely concerned with star formation in galaxies.
Having completed a BSc and PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, Gear worked at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh where he managed the construction of the SCUBA camera for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. Gear has been at Cardiff since 1999, where he set up and leads the Astronomy Instrumentation Group, and has been Head of School since 2005. Gear was involved in the QUaD CMB Polarization experiment.[1] In 2012, Gear was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Gear, Walter Profile at Cardiff University
- ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Walter Gear". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
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