Professor

Ron Ekers

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Ron Ekers
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Professor Ronald Ekers has had an internationally distinguished career involving research in radio astronomy and radio astronomical techniques. He has been involved in a wide range of innovative experiments involving radio observations of the sun, planets, stars, galaxies, and quasars. These included the first measurements of the gravitational deflection of radio waves, the discovery of the hot gas spiralling around the nucleus of our galaxy and the discovery of a halo of cosmic ray electrons surrounding a spiral galaxy. Before returning to Australia as the foundation director of the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility, he was the director of the Very Large Array, operated by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Fields of research

46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
  • 4602 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND IMAGE PROCESSING
  • 4603 COMPUTER VISION AND MULTIMEDIA COMPUTATION
    • 460306 Image Processing
50 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields
    • 500204 History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES
  • 5101 ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES
    • 510101 Astrobiology
    • 510102 Astronomical instrumentation
    • 510103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
    • 510106 High Energy Astrophysics; Cosmic Rays

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

Expertise type

  • Astronomy
  • Cosmology
  • Physics
  • Radioastronomy

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