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	Science Show - 5 November 2005 - Demonstrating Einstein's Theories
		Malcolm Longair: Oh, this is lovely, actually very simple experiment to demonstrate the phenomenon of Brownian motion.
		Malcolm Longair: The answer is quite simple that nowadays using computer technology, using CCD cameras you're actually able to show the audience the details of what's happening in all of these great experiments.
		Malcolm Longair: It's from the 1915 paper of general relativity, because what that paper's demonstrated was that light is bent in bent space time and the way in which that's bent in the vicinity of massive objects.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/scienceshow/stories/2005/1494173.htm (1176 words)

	RSNZ/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Malcom Longair is a professor of natural philosophy and head of Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
		He conducts research in the field of astrophysics, with an interest in high energy astrophysics, astrophysical cosmology and the history of physics.
		Malcolm Longair will place these papers in their historical context and the struggles which Einstein had over the acceptance of the concept of quanta.
	www.rsnz.org /events/emc2/einstein/longair.php (591 words)

	Amazon.ca: High Energy Astrophysics: Books: Malcolm S. Longair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Longair's series on High Energy Astrophysics is now a classic: impressive textbooks for the specialist course of study, an indispensable compendium of current topics for the professional astronomer, a goldmine of fascinating information for the science undergraduate.' The Observatory
		Reflecting the immense interest and developments in the subject, Professor Longair has developed the second edition into three texts; in this second volume he provides a comprehensive discussion of the high energy astrophysics of stars, the Galaxy and the interstellar medium.
		He develops an understanding for the essential physics with an elegance and infectious enthusiasm for which his teaching is internationally renowned, illustrating the issues throughout with results from the forefront of research.
	www.amazon.ca /High-Energy-Astrophysics-Malcolm-Longair/dp/0521435846 (331 words)

	Our Evolving Universe by Malcolm S. Longair [ISBN: 0521550912] - Find Cheap Textbook Prices & Save BIG
		Malcolm Longair takes us on a breathtaking tour of the most dramatic recent results astronomers have on the birth of stars, the hunt for fl holes and dark matter, on gravitational lensing and the latest tests of the Big Bang.
		The author, Malcolm Longair, is both an accomplished scientist and a noted lecturer on astronomy for young peoples' programs, which makes his book an ideal volume for those with a non-professional interest in this topic.
		However, Professor Longair, in this book, focusses on ideas rather than details and manages to strike what I think is a good balance between straightforward explanation and including enough detail to make the book a worthwhile exercise.
	www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0521550912.html (734 words)

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		The bizarre, never-before-seen details may be a combination of light from massive star forming regions, small satellite dwarf galaxies, and bow shocks caused by jets of hot gas blasted out of the galaxy's core by a suspected fl hole.
		The observations were made by Professor Malcolm Longair and Philip Best of the Cavendish Laboratory,Cambridge University, and Huub Rottgering of Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, who have published images of three radio galaxies (3C368, 3C324 and 3C265) in the August 1 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		Longair, Best and Rottgering propose that the remarkable structures seen in the Hubble images are different manifestations of activity associated with radio galaxies.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /news-release/releases/1995/95-182.txt (607 words)

	Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Professor Malcolm Longair - Maxwell, Planck and the Discovery of Quanta
		The discovery of the quantum nature of the world we live in was the greatest discovery of the twentieth century.
		Simultaneously, he showed how the ideas could be applied to solids and explained why all degrees of freedom are not excited in gases and solids at low temperatures, thus solving Maxwell’s problem concerning the specific heat of gases.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /royalphil/rps/summaries/longair.htm (695 words)

	Review 0062
		alcolm Longair takes us on a breathtaking tour of the most dramatic recent results astronomers have obtained on the birth of stars, the hunt for fl holes and dark matter, on gravitational lensing and the latest tests of the Big Bang.
		alcolm Longair is not only a well-known research scientist but also an excellent teacher and science writer, with a special ability to address a young audience.
		In this respect his work as a disseminator of science to the general public and especially to the younger generations has earned him worldwide recognition, and in 1986 he was given the Britannica award for the dissemination of knowledge.
	www.amazings.com /sbb/reviews/review0062.html (523 words)

	Price Compare ISBN 0521435846 High Energy Astrophysics by Malcolm S. Longair - Direct Textbooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The two volumes of "High Energy Astrophysics" by M.S. Longair are amongst my favourite books: I read them several times and every time I found interesting hints for my work.
		I'm waiting for the third volume for 3 years, but it's still missing from the bookshelf... The first volume ("Particles, Photons and Their Detection") focuses on the interactions between high energy particles and matter, in order to help the reader to understand how detectors work.
		Special emphasis is given to open problems -- only very few of them were solved in the meantime (Nov. 2001). The 2 volumes are well suited for advanced students in Physics or Astronomy, and are a good reference for researchers.
	www.directtextbook.com /prices/0521435846 (386 words)

	HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Hubble Uncovers Surprisingly Complex Structures in Radio Galaxies (08/07/1995) - Release Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The observations were made by Professor Malcolm Longair and Philip Best of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, and Huub Rottgering of Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, who have published images of three radio galaxies (3C368, 3C324 and 3C265) in the August 1, 1995 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		The team is analyzing a sample of 28 radio galaxies that have been imaged by Hubble in visible light, by the Very Large Array Radio Interferometer at radio wavelengths, and by the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.
		They conclude that at least two mechanisms must be responsible for the alignment effect, with both scattering of nuclear light and star-formation playing a role.
	hubblesite.org /newscenter/archive/releases/1995/30/text (654 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Malcolm Longair is sceptical of our ability to predict the future of physics.
		In this visual article he uses history to suggest that we might not have always been able to predict the future in the past.
		Longair argues that we should not try to imagine what physicists will do.
	www.fathom.com /feature/2192/index.html (817 words)

	Malcolm Longair: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Professor Malcolm Sim Longair CBE This is Me
		By 1967 he had completed a Ph.D. in radio astronomy at Cambridge University, becoming a demonstrator and then lecturer at Cambridge in 1970.
		Longair has held many highly respected positions within the field of astronomy.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Longair_Malcolm_14382660.htm (315 words)

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		This is a graduate level class designed to provide the basics of extragalactic astronomy, complimentary to the department's "Stars and the Milky Way" course (ASTR 5440).
		There is a textbook: Galaxy Formation by Malcolm Longair.
		Large Scale Structure, Chapter 2 from Longair: Jan. 31, 2003.
	faraday.uwyo.edu /~mbrother/a5460s03/a5460s03.html (199 words)

	Postgenomic - Books & Papers details
		In this book Malcolm Longair reviews the historical development of the key areas of modern astrophysics, linking the strands together to show how they have led to the extraordinarily rich panorama of modern astrophysics and cosmology.
		While many of the great discoveries were derived from pioneering observations, the emphasis is upon the development of theoretical concepts and how they came to be accepted.
		A new book by M. Longair will be soon released from CUP, "The Cosmic Century : A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology".
	www.postgenomic.com /paper.php?paper_id=4050 (224 words)

	Prof Malcolm Longair - Emc2
		Prof Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
		He has authored university texts and delivered television lectures on "The Origins of Our Universe".
		Professor Longair will be the University of Canterbury's Erskine Fellow from 23 September to 24 October.
	www.eequalsmcsquared.auckland.ac.nz /sites/index.cfm?536B7A59-9C9C-37C3-E270-4A547AB1C77F (132 words)

	Activities - NSW Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics
		To celebrate the anniversary of Albert Einstein's amazing annus mirabilis, or "year of wonders” some of Einstein’s key experiments will be recreated live on stage at the Powerhouse Museum with renowned British Astrophysicist, Malcolm Longair.
		Malcolm Longair is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy and head of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
		He is a highly noted Astrophysicist and has contributed to NASA’s Hubble telescope project and the European space agency program.
	www.nsw.aip.org.au /ML2005.php (194 words)

	Physics 617 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I inserted a long discussion of how to estimate relaxation times for self-gravitating systems, the point of which was that galaxies have very very long two body relaxation times.
		October 7th: Longair's book (pages 77-87) on the structure of galaxy clusters, the definition of Bautz-Morgan classes, and the Lane-Emden equation.
		This takes us through the end of Chapter 5 in Longair's book, although the lecture material and book chapter are not the same.
	www.sdss.jhu.edu /~ethan/exgal-02.html (972 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Education \| A blend of youth and experience?
		Prof Malcolm Longair is undoubtedly one of Britain's foremost scientists.
		The former president of the Royal Astronomical Society has a string of awards and professorships from some of the best universities in the world.
		At 64, Prof Longair symbolises the "greying" of the professoriate in the UK.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/education/4655593.stm (784 words)

	Maxwell Year 2006 Photos
		James Clerk Maxwell has recently been hailed as the No 1 Scientist in a National Library of Scotland poll, and the 4th most important topic in Scotland’s History by a BBC poll.
		Professor Malcolm Longair gave a stimulating lecture on James Clerk Maxwell as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival and Maxwell Year 2006.
		Prof Longair is a physicist and astronomer, he was, until recently, the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory, which was set up by Maxwell himself.
	www.maxwellyear2006.org /html/photos_4.html (91 words)

	ScienceLive - Einstein 1905-2005 in Theory and Experiment with Malcolm Longair
		Celebrate Einstein Year by watching Professor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics recreate some of Einstein's key experiments, which all relate to the scientist's great papers of 1905.
		Professor Longair will carry out four live experiments and a number of computer simulations.
		These will include measuring the speed of light, demonstrating Brownian motion, simulating gravitational lenses and the deflection of light by the sun.
	www.sciencelive.org /component/option,com_mediadb/task,view/idstr,CUSP-CSF_05-Longair (74 words)

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		Right: Signing the MOU: New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López, University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard and Professor Malcolm Longair, head of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
		New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López and Professor Malcolm Longair, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, signed off today on the agreement during a morning ceremony held at the University of Cambridge.
		The $50 million state-of-the-art astronomical research facility is scheduled to be completed by 2008, near the summit of the 10,800-foot Magdalena Mountains in south-central New Mexico, about 30 miles west of the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro.
	infohost.nmt.edu /mainpage/news/2004/27july01.html (215 words)

	Trinity College Science Society
		The lecture will be delivered at the non-technical level.
		Professor Longair is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy and head of Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
		Professor Longair has held many highly respected positions within the field of astronomy.
	www.trin.cam.ac.uk /tcss/archives/longair251004_old.html (279 words)

	Schmidt Maarten Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1975 March 10. AIP International Catalog of Sources
		Discovery of the quasars; comments on exotic phenomena in astrophysics; Allan Sandage; collaboration with Martin Rees, Cambridge (Malcolm Longair and Peter Scheuer); the quasar PHL 957.
		Future research projects (Donald Weistrop), and the orginal Dutch school of stellar statistics.
		Also prominently mentioned are: Adriaan Blaauw, John Bolton, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Cyril Hazard, Malcolm Longair, Tom R. Matthews, Plaut, Peter Scheuer, and Sidney van den Bergh.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/4861.html (287 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: longair: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		J.E. Gunn, M.S. Longair, M.J. Rees; edited by André Maeder, Louis Martinet, Gustave Tammann by J. E Gunn (Unknown Binding - 1978)
		The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose and Malcolm Longair (Paperback - 13 Mar 1999)
		The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (CANTO) by Roger Penrose and Malcolm Longair (Hardcover - 27 Feb 1997)
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&tag=545-21&rh=i:books,k:longair&page=1 (651 words)

	Maxwell Year 2006 Events
		The University of Paisley, in partnership with the Institute of Physics in Scotland, will hold a day seminar to celebrate the life and work of James Clerk Maxwell.
		Malcolm Longair will deal with the Maxwellian revolution – particularly in respect to heat, light, colour and electromagnetism.
		Keith Moffatt will aim to unravel the origins and some later developments of knot theory in relation to Maxwell's electrodynamics and equations for fluid flow.
	www.maxwellyear2006.org /html/events.html (854 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - ISBN 0521621135
		Based on a meeting to honour the pioneering work of Igor Novikov, this book presents nineteen specially written chapters covering all aspects of relativistic astrophysics.
		The distinguished team of authors is: Marek Abramowicz, Bernard Carr, Valeri Frolov, Werner Israel, Bernard Jones, Lev Kofman, Edward (and#8216;Rockyand#8217;) Kolb, Malcolm Longair, Phil Lubin, Donald Lynden-Bell, Igor Novikov, Martin Rees, Sergei Shadarin, George Smoot, Roland Svensson, Gustav Tammann, Kip Thorne, Michael Turner and J. Craig Wheeler.
		This volume provides researchers with a broad overview of modern relativistic astrophysics and offers an ideal source of supplementary reading for graduate students in astrophysics, cosmology and physics.
	www.abebooks.com /sm-search-0521621135-relativistic-astrophysics--is!0521621135.html (1407 words)

	The Science Show: 5 November 2005 - Demonstrating Einstein's Theories
		The Science Show: 5 November 2005 - Demonstrating Einstein's Theories
		As part of the celebration of the World Year of Physics, British astrophysicist and astronomer, Malcolm Longair is visiting Australia, lecturing and recreating some of Einstein's theories live on stage.
		We’ll do molecules and Brownian motion, relativity, Einstein’s discovery of quanta, wave-particle duality and general relativity and gravitational lensing - all in one hour.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s1494173.htm (1137 words)

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		Right: Signing the MOU: New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López, University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard and Professor Malcolm Longair, head of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
		New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López and Professor Malcolm Longair, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, signed off today on the agreement during a morning ceremony held at the University of Cambridge.
		The $50 million state-of-the-art astronomical research facility is scheduled to be completed by 2008, near the summit of the 10,800-foot Magdalena Mountains in south-central New Mexico, about 30 miles west of the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro.
	www.nmt.edu /mainpage/news/2004/27july01.html (215 words)

	TCSS Trinity College Science Society - Prof Malcolm Longair CBE FRSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		TCSS Trinity College Science Society - Prof Malcolm Longair CBE FRSE
		There have been many remarkable recent developments in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe and its contents as a result of observations from space and ground-based telescopes.
		He also has a strong interest in the teaching of physics and in the history of physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
	www.trin.cam.ac.uk /tcss/archives/longair251004.html (290 words)

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