Malcolm S. Longair

Malcolm Longair, CBE, FRS, FRSE, was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1980 to 1990 and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005. His books with Cambridge University Press include High Energy Astrophysics (2011), The Cosmic Century (2006), Quantum Concepts in Physics (2013), and Maxwell's Enduring Legacy (2016), a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory.

Malcolm Longair, CBE, FRS, FRSE, was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1980 to 1990 and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005. His books with Cambridge University Press include High Energy Astrophysics (2011), The Cosmic Century (2006), Quantum Concepts in Physics (2013), and Maxwell's Enduring Legacy (2016), a scientific history of the Cavendish Laboratory. See less