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{{short description|British astronomer (born 1942)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Michael Rowan-Robinson
| honorific_suffix  = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRAS|FInstP|size=100%}}
| birth_name        = Geoffrey Michael Rowan-Robinson<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | title=ROWAN-ROBINSON, Prof. (Geoffrey) Michael | id = U33289 | volume = 1997 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref>
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1942|07|09|df=y}}<ref name=whoswho/>
| birth_place       = England
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| workplaces        = [[Imperial College London]]<br />[[Gresham College]]
| patrons           = 
| education         = [[Eshton|Eshton Hall School]]<ref name=whoswho/>
| alma_mater        = [[University of Cambridge]] (BA)<br />[[Royal Holloway, University of London]] (PhD)<ref name=mathgene/><ref name=astro>{{cite web|url=http://astro.ic.ac.uk/home/mrrobinson |website=ic.ac.uk |title=Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson |publisher=Imperial College London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312094210/http://astro.ic.ac.uk/home/mrrobinson |archive-date=12 March 2017 }}</ref>
| thesis_title      = On the structure and distribution of quasi-stellar radio-sources
| thesis_url        = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704054
| thesis_year       = 1969
| doctoral_advisor  = [[William McCrea (astronomer)|William McCrea]]<ref name=gmphd/>
| academic_advisors = 
| doctoral_students = [[Brian May]]<ref name=mathgene/><ref name=mayphd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Brian Harold|last=May |title=A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud |publisher=Imperial College London |date=2008 |url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443586 |website=ethos.bl.uk |oclc=754716941|hdl=10044/1/1333|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-77706-1|isbn=9780387777054|bibcode=2008srvz.book.....M|hdl-access=free }} {{open access}}</ref>
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| awards            = [[Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize]] (2008)
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| website           = {{URL|http://astro.ic.ac.uk/home/mrrobinson}}
}}

'''(Geoffrey) Michael Rowan-Robinson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRAS|FInstP}} (born 9 July 1942)<ref name=whoswho/> is an [[astronomer]], astrophysicist and [[Professor]] of [[Astrophysics]] at [[Imperial College London]]. He previously served as head of the astrophysics group until May 2007 and from 1981 to 1982, and as [[Gresham Professor of Astronomy]].<ref name=whoswho/><ref name=cv>{{cite web|first=Michael |last=Rowan-Robinson |year=2017 |url=http://astro.ic.ac.uk/public/mrr/CVshort.07.12.pdf |website=astro.ic.ac.uk |title=Michael Rowan-Robinson CV |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505221837/http://astro.ic.ac.uk/public/mrr/CVshort.07.12.pdf |archive-date=5 May 2015}}</ref>

==Education==
Rowan-Robinson was educated at [[Eshton]] Hall School<ref name=whoswho/> and the [[University of Cambridge]] where he completed a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[Natural Sciences (Cambridge)|Natural Sciences]] as an undergraduate student of [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]. He went on to complete a [[PhD]] on [[Quasar]]s at [[Royal Holloway, University of London]] in 1969 supervised by [[William McCrea (astronomer)|William McCrea]].<ref name=mathgene/><ref name=gmphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=[[University of London]]|title=On the structure and distribution of quasi-stellar radio-sources|first= Geoffrey Michael|last=Rowan-Robinson|date=1969|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704054|website=ethos.bl.uk|isbn=9781339706757}}</ref>

==Research and career==
Rowan-Robinson's research interests include the [[Spitzer Space Telescope]] SWIRE project, the European Large Area ISO Survey, the UK SCUBA Survey (see [[James Clerk Maxwell Telescope]]), the [[IRAS]] PSC Redshift Survey, the [[Herschel Space Observatory]] SPIRE instrument<ref name="GriffinAbergel2010">{{cite journal|last1=Griffin|first1=M. J.|last2=Abergel|first2=A.|last3=Abreu|first3=A.|last4=Ade|first4=P. A. R.|last5=André|first5=P.|last6=Augueres|first6=J.-L.|last7=Babbedge|first7=T.|last8=Bae|first8=Y.|last9=Baillie|first9=T.|last10=Baluteau|first10=J.-P.|last11=Barlow|first11=M. J.|last12=Bendo|first12=G.|last13=Benielli|first13=D.|last14=Bock|first14=J. J.|last15=Bonhomme|first15=P.|last16=Brisbin|first16=D.|last17=Brockley-Blatt|first17=C.|last18=Caldwell|first18=M.|last19=Cara|first19=C.|last20=Castro-Rodriguez|first20=N.|last21=Cerulli|first21=R.|last22=Chanial|first22=P.|last23=Chen|first23=S.|last24=Clark|first24=E.|last25=Clements|first25=D. 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Rowan-Robinson co-supervised [[Brian May]]'s PhD in Astrophysics initially supervised by James Ring and Ken Reay.<ref name=mathgene>{{MathGenealogy|id=217499}}</ref><ref name=mayphd/> He retired as president of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]] in 2008.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

In November 2021 he published an article on the [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] regarding the search for [[Planet Nine]] using IRAS data.<ref>{{cite journal
| last = Rowan-Robinson
| first = Michael
| title = A search for Planet 9 in the IRAS data
| journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
| year = 2022
| volume = 510
| issue = 3
| pages = 3716–3726
| publisher = [[Royal Astronomical Society]]
| doi = 10.1093/mnras/stab3212
| doi-access = free
| arxiv = 2111.03831
}}</ref>

===Publications===
His publications<ref name=scopus>{{Scopus id}}</ref><ref name="HughesSerjeant1998">{{cite journal|last1=Hughes|first1=David H.|last2=Serjeant|first2=Stephen|last3=Dunlop|first3=James|last4=Rowan-Robinson|first4=Michael|last5=Blain|first5=Andrew|last6=Mann|first6=Robert G.|last7=Ivison|first7=Rob|last8=Peacock|first8=John|last9=Efstathiou|first9=Andreas|last10=Gear|first10=Walter|last11=Oliver|first11=Seb|last12=Lawrence|first12=Andy|last13=Longair|first13=Malcolm|author-link13=Malcolm Longair|last14=Goldschmidt|first14=Pippa|last15=Jenness|first15=Tim|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|title=High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey|volume=394|issue=6690|year=1998|pages=241–247|issn=0028-0836|doi=10.1038/28328|arxiv = astro-ph/9806297 |bibcode = 1998Natur.394..241H |s2cid=4428890}}</ref> and books include:
* ''The Cosmological Distance Ladder''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The cosmological distance ladder : distance and time in the universe|last=Michael.|first=Rowan-Robinson|date=1985|publisher=[[W.H. Freeman]]|isbn=978-0716715863|location=New York, NY|oclc=10505595}}</ref>
* ''Universe''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Universe|last=Michael.|first=Rowan-Robinson|date=1990|publisher=[[Longman]]|isbn=9780582044388|location=London|oclc=20964749}}</ref>
* ''Ripples in the Cosmos''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ripples in the cosmos : a view behind the scenes of the new cosmology.|last=Michael.|first=Rowan-Robinson|date=1993|publisher=Diane Pub Co|isbn=9780788194610|oclc=948365655}}</ref>
* ''The Nine Numbers of the Cosmos''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The nine numbers of the cosmos|last=Michael.|first=Rowan-Robinson|date=2001 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=9780192862167|location=Oxford|oclc=828523172}}</ref>
* ''Cosmology''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Cosmology|last=Michael.|first=Rowan-Robinson|date=2004|publisher=[[Clarendon Press]]|isbn=9780198527473|edition=4th|location=Oxford|oclc=53156521}}</ref>

===Awards and honours===
Rowan-Robinson was awarded the 2008 [[Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize|Hoyle Medal]] by the [[Institute of Physics]] for his research in infrared and submillimetre [[astronomy]], and observational [[cosmology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/Subject_Awards/The_Hoyle_Medal_and_Prize/page_23281.html|title=Hoyle Medal and Prize|website=iop.org|access-date=2007-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704212007/http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/Subject_Awards/The_Hoyle_Medal_and_Prize/page_23281.html|archive-date=2008-07-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[asteroid]] [[4599 Rowan]], discovered in 1985 by [[Henri Debehogne]] at the [[European Southern Observatory]], was renamed{{when|date=July 2017}} "Rowan" to honor  Michael Rowan-Robinson.  The credit notes that, even though Rowan-Robinson's contributions have been in extragalactic astronomy, he was able to use data from [[IRAS]] to set a limit on the number of undiscovered [[Jupiter]]-like planets beyond the orbit of [[Neptune]].<ref name="asteroid">{{cite web
  | title=Citation for (4599)
  | url=http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/ShowCitation.COM?num=4599
  | access-date=2006-07-20 }} {{dead link|date=July 2017}}</ref>

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