Cyril Hazard

Cyril Hazard
Hazard in 1981
Born(1928-03-18)18 March 1928
Cumbria, England
Died14 June 2025(2025-06-14) (aged 97)
Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, England
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
Doctoral advisorRobert Hanbury Brown

Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025) was a British astronomer. He is known for revolutionising quasar observation with John Bolton in 1962. His work allowed other astronomers to find redshifts from the emission lines from other radio sources.

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