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for his work on passive cooling techniques, the award citing "the breakthrough concepts that made possible the James Webb Space Telescope and its successors". The award was accepted on behalf of Hawarden's widow Frances by the
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on cryogenic cooling limited the telescope's lifespan as well as adding significant weight. In the early 1980s Hawarden began developing the idea of using passive cooling for infrared space telescopes through a combination of
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for the Edison project but the proposal was also rejected. The ideas continued to face resistance though some passive cooling was incorporated into the design of the 0.85 m (2.8 ft) diameter
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of the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon. A passively cooled telescope is significantly lighter and permits much larger optics and instruments.
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launched in 2003. The ideas were later adopted in full for the 6.5 m (21 ft) diameter
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but the design was rejected. In 1991 Hawarden and Harley Thronson proposed a similar design to
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in 1966 with a BSc in Physics and Applied Mathematics, and then graduated from the
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as the Co-Investigator for the infrared camera (ISOCAM) but he considered the
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Photometry of Melotte 66 and Related Investigations of Old Open Clusters
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throughout the 1990s. He returned to Edinburgh in 2001 and became the
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cooling system "horrendously complicated". The dependency of
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Gardner, Jonathan; Lockwood, Alexandra (10 February 2022).
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Passively Cooled Orbiting Infrared Observatory Telescope
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enables the sunshield to shelter the telescope from the
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with an MSc in Astronomy 1970 and then a PhD in 1975 on
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Index

FRAS
Mossel Bay
Cape Province
Edinburgh
University of Natal
University of Cape Town
NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
South African Astronomical Observatory
Siding Spring Observatory
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Joint Astronomy Centre
Hawaii
Thesis
Old Southern Open Clusters
Doctoral advisor
Brian Warner
FRAS
astrophysicist
passive cooling
space telescopes
NASA's Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal
Mossel Bay
Cape Province
University of Natal
University of Cape Town
old open clusters
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
Photometry
South African Astronomical Observatory

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