New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson

1959. He has B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Green is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge. His Ph.D. studies started with a measurement of the distance to 3C58, the remnant of the 'historical' galactic supernova of AD 1181. He has continued to study supernova remnants, including the production (since 1984) of a widely-used catalogue of galactic supernova remnants and the identification of the youngest known galactic remnant, G1.9+0.3, which is at most only 150 years old. Dr. Green's research interests also cover a wide range of other radio astronomical topics, and in recent years he has used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India to produce deep, wide-field low-frequency radio surveys. He has collaborated with Richard Stephenson on studies of the 'historical' supernovae seen in our Galaxy and their remnants and their co-authored book, Historical Supernovae and their Remnants, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.

Richard Strom was born in New York City (USA) in 1944, and has a B.A. in physics from Tufts University (USA) and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in radio astronomy from the University of Manchester (Jodrell Bank), UK. Until his retirement in 2009 he was Senior Research Astronomer at ASTRON (the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) in Dwingeloo and Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2010 Dr. Strom has held Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorships for Senior International Scientists and has been a Visiting Professor of Physics at the National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Singapore. For some years he also was an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Astronomy at James Cook University, Townsville (Australia). Dr. Strom is a past Secretary and member of the Organising Committee of IAU Commission 40 (Radio Astronomy) and is also a member of Commissions 28 (Galaxies), 34 (Interstellar Matter) and 41 (History of Astronomy) and of the IAU Working Group on Historic Radio Astronomy. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. His research interests include supernova remnants, pulsars, large radio galaxies, radio polarimetry and interferometry, historical Chinese astronomical records and the history of radio astronomy in the Netherlands. He has numerous publications in a range of astronomical journals and history of astronomy books and co-edited: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Oriental Astronomy (2006, co-edited by Kwan-Yu Chen, Wayne Orchiston and Boonrucksar Soonthornthum), Highlighting the History of Astronomy in the Asia-Pacific Region. Proceedings of the ICOA-6 Conference (2011, co-edited by Wayne Orchiston and Tsuko Nakamura) and Mapping the Oriental Sky. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Oriental Astronomy (ICOA-7) (2011, co-edited by Tsuko Nakamura, Wayne Orchiston and Mitsuru Sôma).