Professor

Ken Freeman

AC FAA FRS

Ken Freeman
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Freeman is distinguished for his theoretical and observational studies of star clusters and of galaxies. His construction of the first self-consistent model of rotating barred galaxies was a notable achievement in stellar dynamics, while his discovery of a general property of spiral galaxies, that their surface brightness falls off exponentially with radius, is the most important in its field for many years and has become a major cosmoganic problem. He devised the first accurate method for measuring the masses of globular clusters, and his recent discovery that at least some globular clusters are not chemically homogenous has major implications. Freeman is a true leader in that his main papers are already classical and have opened up lines of work which are being followed by many investigators in many observatories.

Fields of research

51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
    • 510103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
    • 510104 Galactic Astronomy

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Cosmology
  • Astronomy
  • Dark Matter
  • Galaxy Formation
  • Physics

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