RefNo | EC/2021/37 |
Level | Item |
Title | Schutz, Bernard Frederick: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Date | 21 April 2021 |
Description | Certificate endorsing election of Bernard Schutz as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
Citation | Bernard Schutz's seminal contributions to relativistic astrophysics began over 50 years ago and continue unabated. They have driven the field of gravitational wave searches, leading to their direct detection in 2015. His visions for analyses paved the way for discoveries made using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). In 1986 his proposal for the use of binary neutron-star mergers as standard candles to measure the Hubble constant was spectacularly demonstrated with the first detection of gravitational waves from such a merger in 2017. In 2019 Schutz was elected to the US National Academy of Science and was awarded the Eddington Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2020 he was awarded the Isaacson Prize in gravitational wave science by the American Physical Society. |
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 and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |