Nick Kaiser
Nicholas Kaiser is a British cosmologist.Life
Kaiser received his Bachelor's in Physics at Leeds University in 1978, and his Part III in Maths at University of Cambridge in 1979. He obtained his PhD in Astronomy, also at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Martin Rees.
After postdoctoral positions at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Sussex, and University of Cambridge, Kaiser was CITA Professor at the University of Toronto. In 1998 he moved to become Professor at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii. He is now professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Kaiser was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.Works
Kaiser has made major contributions to cosmology:
He has written articles on details of cosmological distance measures.
Kaiser was the initiator and Principal Investigator of the PanSTARRS imaging survey of most of the sky.Awards and honors
Kaiser has won numerous awards and honors including:
