Jack Meadows (astronomer)
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Arthur Jack Meadows (24 January 1934 – 18 July 2016) was a British astronomer and information scientist. Known for founding the astronomy department of University of Leicester.[1]
He had a wide-ranging career, including working at the British Museum and as a professor of library and information studies.[1] He published extensively (30 books and over 250 journal articles).[2]
Books (selected)
- Communication in Science
- Communicating Research
Honors
- A minor planet, Asteroid 4600 Meadows is named after him.[2]
- Fulbright scholar, 1959-1961[2]
References
- ^ a b Obituary: Jack Meadows, 1934-2016, Times Higher Education, August 18, 2016 by Jack Grove
- ^ a b c Obituary, Association for Information Science and Technology
Further reading
- Jack Meadows obituary by Alice Meadows, The Guardian Tuesday 2 August 2016
- Obituary for Professor Jack Meadows, Loughborough, 2016-08-12
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from April 2022
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with LNB identifiers
- Articles with NDL identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NLG identifiers
- Articles with NSK identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PLWABN identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- Academics of the University of Leicester
- 20th-century British astronomers
- 1934 births
- 2016 deaths