About Keith Douglas Horne
Born 1955. Keith Douglas Horne is an American and British physicist, astronomer and university teacher.
Keith Douglas Horne is an American astronomer. He is Emeritus Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews. His doctoral advisor was John Beverley Oke. In 2010, he was part of an international team that discovered the Hot Jupiter exoplanet Qatar-1b.
Horne was the 2004 recipient of the Herschel Medal, which he received for his observational astronomy work on cataclysmic variable stars.
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Who is Keith Douglas Horne?
physicist and astronomer
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Keith Douglas Horne was born on 11 July 1955.
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Keith Douglas Horne is a physicist, astronomer and university teacher.
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Keith Douglas Horne is American and British.
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