Patrick Wayman
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Patrick Wayman's Degrees
- PhD Astronomy University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Patrick Wayman was an English astronomer and director of Dunsink Observatory from 1964 to 1992. Early life and education Patrick Arthur Wayman was born in Bromley, Kent, England on 8 October 1927. His parents were Mary and Lt-col. Lewis John Wayman. He had a twin brother. From 1937 to 1945 he attended City of London School, and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1945 to 1948, graduating in 1948 in mathematics and physics. His 1953 PhD thesis from Cambridge University was entitled "Applications of aspheric optics to astronomy".
Patrick Wayman's Published Works
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- Principles of Optics: Optics of metals (1999) (35)
- Principles of Optics: Basic properties of the electromagnetic field (1999) (29)
- Asymptotic approximations to integrals (1999) (20)
- A Least-Squares Solution for a Linear Relation between Two Observed Quantities (1959) (19)
- Principles of Optics: Elements of the theory of diffraction (1999) (18)
- Principles of Optics: Scattering from inhomogeneous media (1999) (17)
- Double star CCD astrometry and photometry (1988) (12)
- THE HYADES CLUSTER PARALLAX (1967) (12)
- Principles of Optics: Optics of crystals (1999) (12)
- The Meteorite of April 25, 1969 (1969) (11)
- Principles of Optics: Preface to the seventh edition (1999) (11)
- Principles of Optics: Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light (1999) (10)
- Period changes in Magellanic Cloud cepheids (1983) (6)
- Principles of Optics: Rigorous diffraction theory (1999) (5)
- Dunsink Observatory, 1785-1985: A bicentennial history (1987) (4)
- Highlights of Astronomy (1980) (4)
- Principles of Optics: The circle polynomials of Zernike (§9.2.1) (1999) (4)
- On the Aberrations of the Field-Flattened Schmidt Camera (1949) (4)
- The Monocentric Schmidt-Cassegrain Cameras (1950) (3)
- Identification and Protection of Existing and Potential Observatory Sites: Committee of the Executive Committee (1982) (3)
- Daily Maps of the Sun (1956) (3)
- Velocity Ellipsoids and the Gravitational Potential of the Galaxy (1959) (3)
- Proceedings of the Seventeenth General Assembly, Montreal, 1979 (1980) (2)
- A Search for Optical Pulses from the Galactic Centre (1975) (2)
- The Orbit of Halley's Comet (1973) (2)
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: astronomer extraordinaire (2002) (2)
- Cape Photographic Atlas of Southern Galaxies (1958) (2)
- The Dirac delta function (1999) (2)
- Reports of treatment methods committees. (1950) (1)
- Optical flashes from burst X-ray sources? (1977) (1)
- A solar flare on 1956 November 7 (1957) (1)
- Reports on astronomy, 1982 : XVIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, Patras, Greece (1982) (1)
- Principles of Optics: Energy conservation in scalar wavefields (§13.3) (1999) (1)
- Mass loss estimates for Cepheid variables (1986) (1)
- Principles of Optics: Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves (1999) (1)
- Use of an objective grating with IRIS diaphragm photometry (1969) (1)
- High Energy Astrophysics (1982) (1)
- Peeps at William Edwin Hamilton (1999) (1)
- Dunsink Observatory, School of Cosmic Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Report for the period 1972 April 1 - 1973 December 31. (1974) (1)
- Optical systems employed in spectroheliographs (1955) (1)
- Handling of ‘Galaxy’ Photometry (1975) (1)
- Reports on Astronomy (1982) (1)
- Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources and Quasi-Stellar Galaxies (1966) (1)
- Royal Astronomical Society: Dublin Meeting (1950) (0)
- Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society - Friday 1997 October 10 at 16(h)00(m) in the Scientific Societies' Lecture Theatre, Savile Row (1998) (0)
- Book-Review - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1980) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory in 1986 (1987) (0)
- William Molyneux 1656?1698 (2003) (0)
- Instruments and Techniques (1982) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory-Outbreak of Fire (1978) (0)
- International Astronomical Union, Information Bulletin. No._47. (1980) (0)
- Obituary - Newton, Harold (1987) (0)
- Notes of the history of Dunsink Observatory. I. Henry Ussher at Dunsink, 1783 to 1790. (1972) (0)
- An Astronomer's Visit to China (1979) (0)
- The South Telescope of Dunsink Observatory (1968) (0)
- Principles of Optics: A mathematical lemma used in the rigorous derivation of the Lorentz-Lorenz formula (§2.4.2) (1999) (0)
- Principles of Optics: The Calculus of variations (1999) (0)
- Principles of Optics: Light optics, electron optics and wave mechanics (1999) (0)
- What is a Parsec (1990) (0)
- Modern Time Scales (1989) (0)
- Franz Freidrich Ernst Brunnow - A Link between Dunsink and ANN Arbor (1990) (0)
- Book Review: Chronicling the IAU: History of the IAU: The Birth and First Half-Century of the International Astronomical Union (1996) (0)
- Photometry of cepheid variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (1978) (0)
- Corrections on IAU Reportage (1980) (0)
- Principles of Optics: Image-forming instruments (1999) (0)
- Ernst Julius pik, 23 October 1893 - 10 September 1985. (1986) (0)
- A CCD Camera System and Observations of Haro Galaxies (1986) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory in 1984 (1985) (0)
- Irish Participation in the Spanish International Astrophysical Observatory of the Canary-Islands (1980) (0)
- Book-Review - Transactions of the I.A.U. V.17B (1981) (0)
- A Two-Plate Catadioptric System for Astronomical Photography (1952) (0)
- Edith Müller, General Secretary, International Astronomical Union (1998) (0)
- Not so old (1991) (0)
- IRAS observations of classical Cepheids. (1987) (0)
- La Palma, Retrospect and Prospect (1990) (0)
- Principles of Optics: Preface to corrected reprint of the seventh edition (1999) (0)
- Book-Review - Reports on Astronomy (1983) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory. Report for the year ending 1968 March 31. (1972) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory in 1985 (1986) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory Chinese Astronomy and the I.A.U. (1981) (0)
- Reports on astronomy International Astronomical Union (1982) (0)
- The Use of Schmidt Telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere (1972) (0)
- A Method of Distinguishing Magellanic Cloud Membership (1967) (0)
- ERIC Mervyn Lindsay (1975) (0)
- Identification of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds. (1974) (0)
- Principles of Astrometry (book review) (1967) (0)
- Preface to the fifth edition (1999) (0)
- Dunsink Observatory 1964-1967 (1967) (0)
- A Study of Low-Dispersion Spectra of M Stars in the Red Region. (1952) (0)
- Optical Requirements of the Astronomer (1967) (0)
- Book-Review - Proc. 17TH General Assembly I.A.U. - Montreal 1979 (1981) (0)
- Counterpoises of the Birr 6-FOOT Telescope (1995) (0)
- The Grubb Astrographic Telescopes, 1887-1896 (1988) (0)
- IAU announcement (1990) (0)
- Proceedings of the Dunsink Bicentenary Colloquium on Circumstellar Material - Late-Type Stars - Dublin 1985SEP3-6 (1986) (0)
- Teaching of Astronomy (1982) (0)
- Principles of Optics: Proof of Jones' lemma (§13.3) (1999) (0)
- The Andrews Professors of Astronomy and Dunsink Observatory, 1785-1985 (1986) (0)
- Proof of the inequality |μ12(v| ≤ 1 for the spectral degree of coherence (§10.5) (1999) (0)
- The IBM 1620 Computer at Dunsink Observatory (1969) (0)
- Obituary - O'connor, Frederick - 1902-1987 (1987) (0)
- Composition data from variable stars. (1972) (0)
- Preface to the sixth edition (1999) (0)
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