Malcolm Longair

Malcolm Longair (born May 18, 1941, Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish astronomer, noted for his scholarship and teaching, who served as astronomer royal for Scotland from 1980 to 1990. Longair was educated at the University of St. Andrews, Dundee, and at the University of Cambridge (M.A., Ph.D., 1967). In 1968–69 he went as an exchange fellow to the Soviet Union, where he worked in Moscow at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Academy of...