Background
Mould, Jeremy Richard was born on July 31, 1949 in Bristol, England. Son of Michael Thomas and Sheila Patricia (Pickering Clarke) Mould. arrived in Australia, 1963.
Mould, Jeremy Richard was born on July 31, 1949 in Bristol, England. Son of Michael Thomas and Sheila Patricia (Pickering Clarke) Mould. arrived in Australia, 1963.
Bachelor of Science with honors, University Melbourne, Australia, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University, 1975.
Mould was previously Director of the School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University and the American National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, at the University of Melbourne. He immigrated to Australia in 1963.
He was research fellow at Kitt Peak National Observatory, and professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Doctor Mould"s work at Caltech during the early 1980s aimed to determine both the size and the age of the Universe by identifying and calibrating Standard Candles, that is, very bright stars whose Absolute Magnitude can be accurately measured when near the Earth, with more distant examples being identified by their color, spectrum, or in the case of Cepheid Variables, the period of oscillation of their brightness. In collaboration with Gary DaCosta and Michael David Crawford, Doctor Mould prepared Hertzsprung Russell Diagrams of Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud Globular Clusters to determine their age, with the resulting Standard Candle being the brightest star in each cluster, with that star"s absolute luminosity being derivable from its distance, with the B-R Color of the brightest cluster"s star being used to determine the ages of more distant clusters by the colors of their brightest stars.
The Magellanic Clouds are small galaxies that orbit the Milky Way Galaxy, with the distance from Earth to the Large Magellanic Cloud being 157,000 light years and that of the Small Magellanic Cloud being 200,000. During the Summer of 1983, Mould, daCosta and Crawford extended this work to a distance of 2.5 million light years by recording charge-coupled device spectrograms of Globular Clusters orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy at the Cassegrain Focus of the Five Meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain Observatory, with the Standard Candle being determined by the expectation that the spectra of each cluster as a whole would be dominated by the spectrum of the brightest star in lieutenant
Gary da Costa, Professor of Astronomy, Australian National University
Michael David Crawford, Chief Executive Officer, Dulcinea Technologies Corporation.
Member of Australian Academy of Sciences, Association University Research Astronomy (board directors 1997—2001), Astronomical Society Pacific, Astronomical Society Australia, American Astronomical Society.
Married Joan Mary Milesi, December 11, 1971. Children: Helen, Kate.