J. Ward Moody

Samstag, 18. Dezember 1954

J. Ward Moody (born December 18, 1954) is a professor of astronomy at Brigham Young University (BYU). He received a Ph.D. in astronomy from The University of Michigan studying under Robert P. Kirshner. He did post-doctoral research at The Institute for Astronomy at the University of New Mexico with Stephen Gregory and Jack Burns, working on questions of large-scale galaxy structure. His dissertation and post-doctoral work established the existence of small, dwarf galaxies with emission-lines on the edges of galaxy supercluster voids.