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Tom Marsh (astronomer)

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Marsh worked to bring astronomy to less affluent countries and maintained a strong link with Thailand. This enabled astronomers there to use his high-speed cameras and be part of these international endeavours. He also worked with amateur astronomers, and one of his high-profile papers resulted from
263: 431: 273: 406: 411: 192: 148:(1961–2022) was a British astronomer and astrophysicist. His research topics included the accretion and evolution of binary star systems. He was awarded the 401: 396: 243: 313: 426: 416: 386: 119: 436: 421: 98: 114: 93: 269: 244:"Professor Tom Marsh, astrophysicist whose research on binary stars helped shed light on how the universe evolved" 129: 441: 197: 134: 391: 381: 332: 176: 124: 248: 153: 218: 287: 180: 149: 75: 375: 157: 160: 60: 175:
He went missing on 16 September 2022 while hiking during an observing visit to
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an initial observation by an amateur astronomer that he followed up.
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RAS medals and awards honour leading astronomers and geophysicists
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Old Windsor
Atacama Desert
Chile
St Paul's School, London
Queens' College, Cambridge
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Space Telescope Science Institute
University of Oxford
University of Southampton
University of Warwick
Herschel Medal
doppler tomography
compact
binary stars
La Silla Observatory
Atacama Desert
List of solved missing person cases
List of unsolved deaths
"Professor Tom Marsh"
"Professor Tom Marsh, astrophysicist whose research on binary stars helped shed light on how the universe evolved"
The Daily Telegraph
RAS medals and awards honour leading astronomers and geophysicists
Royal Astronomical Society
the original
"Professor Tom Marsh"
"Body of missing astronomer Tom Marsh found in Chile's Atacama desert"
The Times
"Body confirmed as Warwick University professor missing in Chile"
BBC News

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