{"id":247,"date":"2011-12-15T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/webtemp\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:35:03","slug":"professor-john-c-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Professor John C. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"278\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-248\" title=\"John Brown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/john.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/john.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/john-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Astronomer Royal for Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Astronomer Royal for Scotland, I give frequent planetarium shows and talks to schools, the public, and amateur societies, and am involved in using conjuring and other art forms to promote interest in science. From 2003-2006 I was consultant Project Astronomer in the Time and Space Project at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, as Regius Professor of Astronomy, I was Leader of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group. My main research interests are in solar and stellar plasmas, solar space missions, stellar mass loss and polarimetry, and signal analysis (especially inverse problems). My teaching has covered Exploring the Sky, Stellar Physics\/ Compact Objects, Relativity, Theoretical Astrophysics, X-Ray Astrophysics, Exploring Planetary Systems, and Cosmology. I am also Honorary Professor in Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Room 620<br \/>\nSchool of Physics and Astronomy<br \/>\nKelvin Building<br \/>\nUniversity of Glasgow<br \/>\nG12 8QQ<br \/>\nScotland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:John.Brown@glasgow.ac.uk\">John.Brown@glasgow.ac.uk<\/a><br \/>\nTel: +44 141 330 4152<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncbrown.org\/\">Personal homepage<\/a><br \/>\n(the contents of which are the responsibility of Professor John C. Brown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astro.gla.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}