| RefNo | EC/2020/40 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Smartt, Stephen: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 14 April 2020 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Stephen Smartt as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citaion giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Stephen Smartt has made seminal contributions to the understanding of supernovae, stellar explosions and sources of gravitational waves through his leadership of ground breaking time domain sky surveys. The last decade in astronomy has been revolutionised through digital sky surveys and rapid data processing. Smartt is one of the formative, global pioneers of this new field, making a number of major discoveries. He invented a way to identify stars before explosion, found the most luminous supernovae in the Universe and played a leading role in the discovery and physical understanding of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |