Lennox Lauchlan CowieFRS (born 18 October 1950,Jedburgh, Scotland)[citation needed] is a Britishastronomer, and professor at theInstitute for Astronomy,University of Hawaiʻi.[1][2]
In 1970, Cowie graduated from theUniversity of Edinburgh with a BSc withFirst Class Honours. He then graduated fromHarvard University with a Ph.D in theoretical physics in 1976. As a post-doc, he was atPrinceton University, where he became an associate professor in 1979. In 1980, he was a Fairchild Scholar atCalifornia Institute of Technology. Beginning in 1980, he was a professor atMassachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1983 at theSpace Telescope Science Institute. In 1984, Cowie became a professor atJohns Hopkins University and then in 1986 a professor at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi, where he was also associate director 1986 to 1997.
Cowie's research deals with the dynamics of interstellar and intergalactic gas. At the University of Hawaiʻi, he investigated, with the telescope onMauna Kea and with theHubble Space Telescope, the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe and their formation and early development.
In 1984, Cowie won the Harvard University Bok Prize[3] and in 1985 theHelen B. Warner Prize from theAmerican Astronomical Society. He was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Astronomical Society, aFellow of the American Physical Society in 1988,[4] and aFellow of the Royal Society in 2004.[5] He was awarded the 2009Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.[6][7] He was elected a Legacy Fellow of theAmerican Astronomical Society in 2020.[8]
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