Andrew Blain is a British astronomer and professor at the University of Leicester. ^[1] He was previously assistant professor at California Institute of Technology. ^[2] He obtained both his Masters degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge.

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• Works
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In his professional career, Andrew had a role as a science team member on the NASA WISE mission that was launched in 2009. ^[3] He was also the chairman of ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC) in 2010, ^[4] as well as a member of the HerMES international consortium. ^[5] In 2005 he was awarded the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society "for his outstanding contributions to sub-mm and far-IR astronomy". ^[6]

Research

Blain's research is based around galactic evolution, the interstellar medium, and gravitational lensing. ^[7]

Works

Below is a list of some of Blain's most notable work:

• The cold universe, Editors Andrew W. Blain, F. Combes, Bruce T. Draine, D. Pfenniger, Yves Revaz, Springer, 2004 ISBN   978-3-540-40838-3
• "A Spectrographic Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population", Multiwavelength mapping of galaxy formation and evolution: proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Venice, Italy, 13–16 October 2003, Volume 2003, Editors Alvio Renzini, Ralf Bender, Springer, 2005, ISBN   978-3-540-25665-6
• "The Nature of Submillimeter Galaxies", Deep millimeter surveys: implications for galaxy formation and evolution, 19–21 June 2000, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Editors James D. Lowenthal, David H. Hughes, World Scientific, 2001 ISBN   978-981-02-4465-1

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