1. Rodney Deane Davies CBE FRS was a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester.
17 Facts About Rod Davies
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Rod Davies is best known for his research on the Cosmic microwave background and the 21cm line.
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Rod Davies met Beth, his wife, at the Student Christian Movement at the University of Adelaide.
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Rod Davies became a Methodist preacher at the age of 16 at his church in South Australia, and regularly attended his Methodist chapel in Manchester.
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Rod Davies suffered from cancer, but carried on working regardless.
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Rod Davies's health declined in the last two months of his life, and he died on 8 November 2015.
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Rod Davies then became a Research Officer in the Radiophysics Division of CSIRO in Sydney, observing radio bursts from the Sun.
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Rod Davies was awarded a PhD in 1956 on his work measuring the distance of galaxies using the 21cm line, examined by Jan Oort.
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Rod Davies was the Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory from 1988 until 1997.
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Rod Davies became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992.
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Rod Davies retired in 1997, but he continued to actively work at Jodrell Bank until his death.
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Rod Davies's research focused on the large-scale structure of the Universe.
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Rod Davies studied emission from the Hydrogen line in galaxies, providing insight into the Hubble flow.
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Rod Davies was best known for his work measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background emission, providing upper limits on the CMB anisotropies, which began with observations on cold winter nights at Jodrell Bank Observatory in the late 1970s, before relocating his telescopes 2,400 metres up the mountain on Tenerife in the early 1980s to take advantage of the clearer atmosphere at that location.
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Rod Davies led research on the emission of the Milky Way as measured by CMB experiments.
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Rod Davies worked on the Planck satellite, co-coordinating the Planck projects on Galactic and Solar System science.
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Rod Davies continued his research over 18 years after his retirement, with his final paper due to be published several months after his death.