Bill Napier
Research Astronomer

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:

B.Sc. in Astronomy, Glasgow University, 1963

Ph. D. in Astronomy, Glasgow University, 1966

BACKGROUND:

Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Royal Holloway College, 1966-67

Astronomer at Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 1967-92

Research Fellow at Oxford University, 1994-96

Leverhulme Fellow at Armagh, 1996-98

Research Astronomer at Armagh, 1996-2001

Emeritus Researcher at Armagh, 2001-present

Honorary Professor at Institute for Astrobiology, University of Cardiff, 2001-present

E-MAIL ADDRESS:

At Armagh - wmn@star.arm.ac.uk

TOWN AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH:

Perth, Scotland

DOB: 29/6/40

Novels

Amazon Bookshop - The Lure (hardback)
Amazon Bookshop - Nemesis (paperback)
Amazon Bookshop - Revelation (paperback)
Splintered Icon Webquest

Books on Astronomy

Amazon - The Origin of Comets (Bailey, Clube and Napier)
Amazon - The Cosmic Serpent (Clube and Napier, see A Review )
Amazon - The Cosmic Winter (Clube and Napier)

Research Papers

Cometary Catastrophes SIS abstract
Other publications (from the Astrophysics Data System )

Other Links

Bill Napier's Home Page
Coherent Catastrophism

Last Revised: 2009 May 27th

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