Mike Disney Explained

Michael John Disney (born Bristol, England, 7 October 1937) is an astrophysicist. He discovered the optical component of the Crab Pulsar in 1969^[1] with John Cocke, which was the first optical pulsar ever observed. Disney was a member of the team that designed the camera for the Hubble Space Telescope.^[2] He was one of the pioneers in the discovery of low surface brightness galaxies.

Disney was a professor at Cardiff University until his forced retirement in 2005.Disney is an outspoken critic of the standard model of cosmology.^[3]

He was the co-author with Alan Wright of the humorous (and often mis-attributed) short story 'Impure Mathematics'.

External links

• Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy
• Mike Disney's homepage
• Modern Cosmology: Science or Folktale?
• Oral history interview transcript with Michael Disney on 19 February 1976, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives

Notes and References

1. Web site: A Pulsar Discovery - Moments of Discovery:1968 . 17 February 2006 . 25 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925211242/https://www.aip.org/history/mod/pulsar/pulsar1/01.html . dead .
2. Web site: 'Emotional moment' in Hubble story:2009 . 11 July 2024 .
3. Book: Kragh . Helge . Longair . Malcolm . 6 March 2019 . The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology . London, UK . OUP Oxford . 157 . 9780192549976.