Thomas G. Phillips
Thomas Gould Phillips | |
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| Born | 18 April 1937 Watford, UK |
| Died | 6 August 2022 (aged 85) Pasadena, California, USA |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Astronomy |
| Institutions | Bell Labs, California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Experiments with spin waves and phonons at microwave frequencies (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold Max Rosenberg |
| Doctoral students | Elliott R. Brown, Tom Buttgenbach, Robert J. Schoelkopf |
Thomas Gould Phillips was a British-born physicist, who worked primarily in the United States. He was a pioneer in the field of submillimeter astronomy, who both developed new instrumentation and made ground-breaking observations. He oversaw the construction of, and was the first and longest-serving director of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory.