Thomas G. Phillips

✶April 18, 1937

†August 6, 2022

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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.

D. Phil. University of Oxford 1964

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