Clifford Cunningham

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Clifford Cunningham

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#7417

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Astrophysics

#823

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#880

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Astronomy

#726

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#1294

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Clifford Cunningham's Degrees

Masters Astronomy University of British Columbia
PhD Astrophysics McGill University

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According to Wikipedia, Clifford J. Cunningham is a Canadian-Scottish professional astronomer and author of numerous books on asteroids. Biography He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo; upon enrollment, at age 15, he was the youngest student ever to attend UW. In 1991 he earned his BA in Classical Studies. For his book Introduction to Asteroids and development of The Minor Planet Index to Scientific Papers , an asteroid was named in his honour. Asteroid 4276 was named Clifford. His work after graduation included astronomical observations at Lowell Observatory; studies in the microbiology department of the University of Guelph; software analysis for Computing Canada; and senior writer in multimedia for the Ontario Lottery Corporation. He is a contributing editor to Mercury magazine , and a contributor to The Astronomical Calendar . In 1999 he appeared as a Starfleet officer on the TV show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In 2013 he became affiliated with NARIT, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. In 2016 he was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage, and in 2014 a contributor to Encyclopædia Britannica. In 2020 he was one of 100 world experts commissioned by Britannica to write its Kid's Encyclopedia. He earned his PhD in the history of astronomy at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia in 2015. He is now a Research Fellow at USQ, and became Series Editor of Historical and Cultural Astronomy books for Springer in June 2019. In 2020 he was elected to membership in the International Astronomical Union , and as of 2022 is a member of Commission 3 .

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The effects of redshifts and focusing on the spectrum of an accretion disk around a Kerr black hole (1975) (283)
The Optical Appearance of a Star Orbiting an Extreme Kerr Black Hole (1972) (239)
RADIATION FROM COLLAPSING RELATIVISTIC STARS. II. LINEARIZED EVEN PARITY RADIATION (1978) (112)
Returning radiation in accretion disks around black holes. (1976) (109)
Design of a Sideband-Separating Balanced SIS Mixer Based on Waveguide Hybrids (2000) (53)
Radiation from collapsing relativistic stars. III. Second order perturbations of collapse with rotation (1980) (43)
NGC 5775: Anatomy of a disk-halo interface (2001) (37)
Free-standing grids wound from 5 μm diameter wire for spectroscopy at far-infrared wavelengths (1979) (36)
The Queen Mary College/University of Oregon photometer for submillimetre continuum observations (1984) (23)
IR observations of the peculiar galaxy Arp220 (1984) (22)
Resonant grids and their use in the construction of submillimetre filters (1983) (20)
The submillimeter spectra of the planets: Narrow-band photometry (1981) (19)
A 210–280 GHz sis heterodyne receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope part I: Design and performance (1992) (18)
Submillimeter molecular line observations of IRC +10216: Searches for MgH, SiH2, and HCO(+), and detection of hot HCN (1994) (17)
Optical appearance of distant objects to observers near and inside a Schwarzschild black hole (1975) (14)
Submillimetre line and continuum observations of the S255 molecular cloud (1985) (10)
A 345 GHZ heterodyne receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (1992) (9)
B335 - a candidate protostar (1985) (9)
Millimeter-wave observations of flat spectrum radio sources (1984) (8)
Hubble Space Telescope/Faint Object Spectrograph Imaging of Wolf 424 AB:Is This Binary a Double Brown Dwarf System? (1998) (8)
HCO+ emission in the HH7–11 region: the slowest component of the outflow? (1993) (7)
Giuseppe Piazzi: The Controversial Discovery and Loss of Ceres in 1801 (2011) (7)
HOW THE FIRST DWARF PLANET BECAME THE ASTEROID CERES (2009) (7)
345-GHz facility SIS receiver for the JCMT (1998) (7)
The first asteroid : ceres 1801-2001 (2002) (7)
SOLAR X-RAY AND DIFFUSE COSMIC X-RAY SPECTRA MEASURED WITH A SATELLITE- BORNE INSTRUMENT. (1970) (6)
The submillimetre and millimetre spectrum of NGC 5128 (1984) (6)
Submillimetre observations reveal that DR21 (OH) is a double source (1988) (5)
Introduction to Asteroids: The Next Frontier (1988) (5)
Early Investigations of Ceres and the Discovery of Pallas (2016) (4)
Low-noise SIS heterodyne receiver at 230 GHz (1987) (4)
Rapidly rotating spheroids of polytropic index n = 1. (1977) (4)
William Herschel and the First Two Asteroids (1984) (4)
Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres (2016) (4)
WHO INVENTED THE WORD ASTEROID: WILLIAM HERSCHEL OR STEPHEN WESTON? (2011) (3)
Behavioral sciences and cancer. A review. (1971) (3)
Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres: Historical Studies in Asteroid Research (2015) (3)
Olbers's Planetary Explosion Hypothesis: Genesis and Early Nineteenth-Century Interpretations (2013) (3)
Discovery of the origin of the word asteroid and the Related Terms asteroidal, planetoid, planetkin, planetule, and cometoid (2015) (3)
A 210–280 GHz sis heterodyne receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope part II: Calibration (1992) (3)
Bode’s Law and the Discovery of Juno (2017) (2)
The great asteroid nomenclature controversy of 1801 (1992) (2)
Milton’s Paradise Lost : Previously Unrecognized Allusions to the Aurora Borealis, and a Solution to the Comet Conundrum in Book 2 (2016) (2)
Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta (2017) (2)
Detection of a new submillimetre water maser transition toward the supergiant VY CMa. (1991) (2)
First Results from HST/FOS Coronagraphic Imaging of Nearby Stars (1995) (2)
Studies of Pallas in the Early Nineteenth Century (2017) (2)
THE ATTRIBUTION OF CLASSICAL DEITIES IN THE ICONOGRAPHY OF GIUSEPPE PIAZZI (2011) (2)
Continuing Results from HST/FOS Coronagraphic Imaging of Nearby Stars (1996) (2)
Lessons Learned from an HST Faint Companion Search Program (1997) (1)
The TIRGO Project: A Compact 800–900 GHz Heterodyne Receiver for Submillimetre Astronomical Spectroscopy (2003) (1)
The Clash Between William Herschel and the Great German ‘Amateur’ Astronomer Johann Schroeter (2015) (1)
Discovery of the Missing Correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1802–5) (2004) (1)
The Scientific Legacy of William Herschel (2018) (1)
An SIS Receiver for the JCMT (1990) (1)
Olbers’ Hypothesis: The Origin of the Asteroids (2017) (1)
HST Spectra of the Outer Planets II. Calibration and Other Problems (1993) (1)
A submillimetre map of the W51 region (1984) (1)
Asteroid Pole Positions: A Survey (1985) (1)
The structure of G 34.3+0.2 deduced from multitransition molecular line observations of HCO+ (1993) (1)
Far-infrared Through Millimeter Observations of Uranus and Neptune (1983) (1)
The discovery of Juno and its effect on Olbers' asteroid explosion hypothesis<sup>1</sup> (2004) (1)
The first four asteroids: a history of their impact on English astronomy in the early nineteenth century (2014) (1)
An SIS based 230 GHz receiver for Astronomy (1986) (1)
<italic>The Astronomer’s Chair</italic>, by Omar W. Nasim (2022) (0)
<italic>Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder</italic>, by Matthew M. Gorey. (2022) (0)
<italic>Decoding Astronomy In Art and Architecture</italic>, by Marion Dolan. (2021) (0)
THE SEVEN SISTERS: A PLEIADES CANTATA (2021) (0)
The Ceres and Pallas Letters of 1802 (2016) (0)
<italic>In memorium Hilmar Duerbeck</italic>, edited by Wolfgang R. Dick and Christiaan Sterken. (2020) (0)
Hegel, Bode’s Law and the Missing Planet (2017) (0)
<italic>Celestial Atlas: A Journey in the Sky through Maps</italic>, by Elena Percivaldi. (2021) (0)
The Recovery of Ceres (2016) (0)
Minor Planet Cluster Passages in 1985 (1985) (0)
The Oriani-Piazzi Letters (2017) (0)
Letters Between Olbers and Gauss (2016) (0)
The Unseen Planet (2016) (0)
<italic>The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos</italic>, by Tom Siegfrieid. (2020) (0)
Letters Between Olbers and Bode (2016) (0)
Who Really Discovered The First Asteroid, Ceres? (2016) (0)
<italic>Simon Marius and His Research</italic>, edited by Hans Gaab and Pierre Leich. (2020) (0)
Juno: A Driving Force for Change (2017) (0)
<italic>Science: Antiquity & Its Legacy</italic> by Philippa Lang. (2017) (0)
<italic>Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science</italic>, by Francesca Rochberg (2018) (0)
The Discovery of Pallas (2016) (0)
<italic>No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity</italic>, by Daniel Kennefick. (2020) (0)
The Perturbations of Vesta (2017) (0)
Historical Surveys of the Asteroids (2017) (0)
The Scientific Papers on Ceres (2016) (0)
Letters: Gauss with Bode and Zach (2017) (0)
<italic>Venus</italic>, by William Sheehan and Sanjay Shridhar Limaye. (2022) (0)
Letters: Bessel with Gauss and Olbers (2017) (0)
Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy: Proceedings of the 27<sup>th</sup> SEAC conference held together with the EAA, edited by A. César González-Garcia, Roslyn M. Frank, Lionel D. Sims, Michael A. Rappenglück, Georg Zotti, Juan A. Belmonte, and Ivan Šprajc (2022) (0)
The Great Nomenclature Controversy of 1801 (2016) (0)
<italic>Discovering Pluto: Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System</italic>, by Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan (2018) (0)
New Planets: The Transition from 1745 to 1804 (2017) (0)
The Sun, by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff (2018) (0)
British Correspondence About Ceres (2016) (0)
Book Review: Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo (2020) (0)
<italic>Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes</italic>, by Ron Cowen. (2020) (0)
<italic>The Moon</italic>, by Bill Leatherbarrow. (2018) (0)
Mathematics and the Triumph of the Human Intellect (2016) (0)
<italic>The Lost Planets: Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets Around Barnard’s Star</italic>, by John Wenz. (2019) (0)
France Versus Germany (2016) (0)
HERSCHEL'S SPURIOUS MOONS OF URANUS: THEIR IMPACT ON SATELLITE ORBITAL THEORY, CELESTIAL CARTOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE (2020) (0)
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World, by Alexander Jones. (2018) (0)
Bode’s Asteroid Book (2016) (0)
<italic>Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology</italic>, by Peter D. Usher. (2022) (0)
Brewster’s Support for Olbers’ Hypothesis (2017) (0)
<italic>Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene</italic>, by Barry Allen (2022) (0)
The Gold Medal (2017) (0)
Accolades and Barbs: William Herschel in Poetry and Satire (2018) (0)
The Olbers Letters (2017) (0)
Annals of Astronomy: Binary Asteroids (2001) (0)
How Did the Public Learn About Ceres (2016) (0)
Book Review: Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology (2020) (0)
A Disturbing Inclination (2017) (0)
The Olbers-Gauss Letters (2017) (0)
Photometry of Asteroids. III (1983) (0)
<italic>Celestial Mirror: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II</italic>, by Barry Perlus. (2020) (0)
The Astronomical Instruments (2017) (0)
<italic>The Dawning Moon of the Mind</italic> by Susan Brind Morrow (2016) (0)
Vesta: A Self-Luminous Asteroid? (2017) (0)
Leonard Robert Janes. 31st January 1903–21st September 1954 (1957) (0)
<italic>Einstein Was Right: The Science and History of Gravitational Waves</italic>, edited by Jed Z. Buchwald. (2021) (0)
Asteroids and the Language of Nature (2017) (0)
Book Review: Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe (2019) (0)
Annals of Astronomy: Killed by a Meteorite? (2003) (0)
The Physical Properties of Ceres (2016) (0)
HST Coronagraphic Imaging of Proxima Centauri (1997) (0)
Receiver A2−A 210 to 280 GHz SIS receiver for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (1995) (0)
Sub-mm and millimeter observations of the outer planets (1983) (0)
A 690 GHZ SIS Mixer (1994) (0)
CO J = 3→2 and far infrared continuum observations of L1551, Orion KL and IRC + 10216 (1982) (0)
DR-21(OH), A Cluster in the Making .1. Observations in Carbon Monosufide and Methanol (1994) (0)
A 210-280 Ghz Sis Heterodyne Receiver for the Maxwell,James,Clerk Telescope .1. Design and Performance (1992) (0)
JCMT receiver A2-a 210-280 GHz SIS receiver (1992) (0)
CO J=3-2 and submillimetre continuum observations of two molecular outflow sources. (1982) (0)
SIS mixers for low noise millimetre-wave heterodyne receivers (1988) (0)
The Gauss Letters (2017) (0)
Scientific Papers on Juno (2017) (0)
<italic>The Sky Atlas</italic>, by Edward Brooke-Hitching. (2021) (0)
The Great Probability Debate (2017) (0)
<italic>Giovanni Domenico Cassini: A Modern Astronomer in the 17th Century</italic>, by Gabriela Bernardi. (2018) (0)
<italic>Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life</italic>, by Jacqueline Feke. (2021) (0)
<italic>Galileo's Telescope: A European Story, by Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota and Franco Giudice</italic>, translated by Catherine Bolton (2016) (0)
<italic>The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy</italic>, by Emily Winterburn (2018) (0)
A Computer Program to Analyze Photometric Data on Asteroids (1983) (0)
<italic>Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand</italic>, by Richard J.A. Talbert. (2017) (0)
<italic>Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (Third Edition)</italic>, by Nick Kanas. (2021) (0)
The Discovery of Vesta (2017) (0)
The Discovery of Ceres (2016) (0)
<italic>Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition</italic>, by Alberto A. Martínez (2018) (0)
<italic>The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England</italic>, by Erin Webster. (2020) (0)
<italic>Mercury</italic>, by William Sheehan (2019) (0)
The Big Four Asteroids in Verse (2017) (0)
Book Review: The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (2017) (0)
Piazzi’s Monographs (2016) (0)
<italic>Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts</italic>, edited by Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg. (2020) (0)
Book Review: Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes (2020) (0)
<italic>Mathematical Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo</italic>, by Christopher M. Graney. (2020) (0)
Book Review: Mercury (2019) (0)
Book Review: Simon Marius and His Research (2020) (0)
The Gauss Anagram (2017) (0)
The Harding Letters (2017) (0)
Search For Correlations Between Amplitudes and Orbital Elements of Asteroids (1985) (0)
Schroeter’s Asteroid Book (2016) (0)
<italic>Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context</italic>, by Johannes Haubold, John Steele and Kathryn Stevens (eds.). (2021) (0)
Bode’s Book of 1802 (2016) (0)
<italic>News From Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860 ‒1910</italic>, by Joshua Nall. (2020) (0)
Planetary Discoveries Before Neptune: From William Herschel to the “Celestial Police” (2021) (0)
The Harding-Gauss Letters (2017) (0)
<italic>Saturn</italic>, by William Sheehan. (2020) (0)
Annals of Astronomy: Lunar Reality (2004) (0)
<italic>Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales</italic>, by Jason S. Nethercut. (2022) (0)
<italic>Early Greek Philosophies of Nature</italic>, by Andrew Gregory. (2021) (0)
<italic>Where Have all the Heavens Gone?: Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina</italic>, ed. by John P. McCarthy and Edmondo F. Lupieri. (2021) (0)
Schroeter’s Book of 1805 (2016) (0)
'DARK STARS' AND A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE ANCIENT GREEK STELLAR MAGNITUDE SYSTEM (2020) (0)
European Satellite Studies of Minor Planets II (1985) (0)
<italic>Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett</italic>, by R. Peter Broughton (2018) (0)
Regnér’s Attacks on Olbers’ Hypothesis (2017) (0)
<italic>Mystery of the Ashen Light of Venus</italic>, by John C. Barentine. (2022) (0)
<italic>Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarion’s "History of the Heavens" </italic>, by John F. Blake. (2021) (0)
Annals of Astronomy: Astronomical Predictions (2005) (0)
The Discovery of Juno (2017) (0)
<italic>Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'The Language of the Heavens’</italic>, by Thomas Owens. (2021) (0)
Breakthrough to Literacy (1971) (0)
<italic>Heaven On Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler and Galileo Discovered the Modern World</italic>, by L.S. Fauber. (2021) (0)
Annals of Astronomy: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond (2001) (0)
Gauss: The Great Asteroid Treatises (2017) (0)
The Original Logbooks: England, France, Germany and Italy (2016) (0)
<italic>Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens</italic>, by John Robert Christianson. (2020) (0)
<italic>Michael Maestlin’s Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618: An Edition and Translation of Manuscript WLB Stuttgart, Cod. Math. 4° 15b, Nr. 8</italic>, by Miguel Granada and Patrick Boner (eds.) (2022) (0)
<italic>Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions That Changed How We Look at the Universe</italic>, by S. James Gates Jr. and Cathie Pelletier. (2020) (0)
<italic>Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe</italic>, by John Johnson Jr. (2020) (0)
Letters: Olbers-Gauss (2017) (0)
THE ORIGINS AND LEGACY OF 'KEPLER'S GAP' (2022) (0)
<italic>The Mythology of the Night Sky: Greek, Roman and Other Celestial Lore. Second Edition</italic>, by David E. Falkner. (2021) (0)
The Music of the Spheres (2017) (0)
<italic>Unifying Heaven and Earth: Essays in the History of Early Modern Cosmology</italic>, edited by Miguel Granada, Patrick Boner and Dario Tessicini. (2020) (0)
<italic>The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars</italic>, by Jo Marchant (2022) (0)
Letters Between Piazzi and Oriani (2016) (0)

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