Phil Diamond

Born
Philip John Diamond

(1958-02-18) February 18, 1958[1]
Bude, Cornwall, United Kingdom[1]
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUK
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
FieldsRadio astronomy
Institutions
ThesisMERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars (1982)
Websitewww.jb.man.ac.uk/~pdiamond

Philip John Diamond CBE HonFInstP is a Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He was the director of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics from 1 October 2006 until 2010. He was the Chief of CSIRO's Astronomy and Space Sciences Division from 1 June 2010[2] and in October 2012 he left CSIRO to become the Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation.[3][4]

Education

Diamond was educated at the University of Leeds ( Bachelor of Science 1979) and the University of Manchester where he was awarded a PhD in Radio astronomy in 1982 for work on MERLIN and OH/IR stars.[1][5][6]

Research

Diamond's research focuses on astrophysical masers.[7][8][9][10]

Honours and awards

Diamond was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to global radio astronomy.[11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "DIAMOND, Dr Philip John". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. "Dr Phil Diamond". ICRAR. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. Spie (2014). "Philip Diamond plenary: The Square Kilometre Array: A Physics Machine for the 21st Century". SPIE Newsroom. doi:10.1117/2.3201407.12.
  4. "New leader for Australia's astronomy and space science research". CSIRO. 31 January 2013. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. Diamond, Philip John (1982). MERLIN observations of the circumstellar envelopes around OH/IR stars (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. OCLC 643586958.
  6. Phil Diamond's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. Vlemmings, W. H. T.; Diamond, P. J.; Imai, H. (2006). "A magnetically collimated jet from an evolved star". Nature. 440 (7080): 58–60. arXiv:astro-ph/0603003. Bibcode:2006Natur.440...58V. doi:10.1038/nature04466. PMID 16511488. S2CID 1899909.
  8. Herrnstein, J. R.; Moran, J. M.; Greenhill, L. J.; Diamond, P. J.; Inoue, M.; Nakai, N.; Miyoshi, M.; Henkel, C.; Riess#, A. (1999). "A geometric distance to the galaxy NGC4258 from orbital motions in a nuclear gas disk". Nature. 400 (6744): 539. arXiv:astro-ph/9907013. Bibcode:1999Natur.400..539H. doi:10.1038/22972. S2CID 204995005.
  9. Miyoshi, M.; Moran, J.; Herrnstein, J.; Greenhill, L.; Nakai, N.; Diamond, P.; Inoue, M. (1995). "Evidence for a black hole from high rotation velocities in a sub-parsec region of NGC4258". Nature. 373 (6510): 127. Bibcode:1995Natur.373..127M. doi:10.1038/373127a0. S2CID 4336316.
  10. List of published papers
  11. "No. 64269". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2023. p. N9.
  12. "Awards for New Year 2024" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2023.


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