Lennox Cowie

Lennox Lauchlan Cowie ( born October 18, 1950 in Jedburgh, Scotland ) is a British astronomer.

Cowie studied at the University of Edinburgh (Bachelor 1969) and in 1976 received his doctorate at Harvard University in theoretical physics. As a post - graduate student he was at Princeton University, where he became Associate Professor in 1979. In 1980 he was Fairchild Scholar at Caltech. From 1980 he was an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 1983 at the Space Telescope Science Institute. In 1984 he became a professor at Johns Hopkins University and from 1986 he worked at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, whose deputy he was the director until 1997.

He dealt with the dynamics of interstellar and intergalactic gas. At the University of Hawaii, where he studied with the telescopes on Mauna Kea and with the Hubble Space Telescope for the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe and examined their formation and early development.

In 2009 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. In 1983 he was awarded the Bart J. Bok Price at Harvard and the 1985 Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society. In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Physical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society.