Kenneth Alwyne Pounds (born 1934), British astrophysicist. Pounds is Emeritus Professor of Space Physics at the University of Leicester. In the backgr
Kenneth Alwyne Pounds (born 1934), British astrophysicist. Pounds is Emeritus Professor of Space Physics at the University of Leicester. In the background are parts of two space-borne X-ray sensors Pounds has worked on: the Wide Field Camera (WFC) used on the ROSAT satellite (launched 1990); and mirrors for the ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory (launched 2000). Pounds was Project Scientist for the WFC, which carried out the first extreme ultraviolet all-sky survey. Pounds was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1981) and made CBE (1984). Photographed in 2008, at the university's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, UK.
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