{"id":49359,"date":"2016-08-30T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=49359"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:52:17","slug":"brent-tully-honored-as-arcs-honolulu-scientist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/30\/brent-tully-honored-as-arcs-honolulu-scientist-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Tully honored as ARCS<\/abbr> Honolulu Scientist of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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ARCS 2016 Scientist of the Year Brent Tully, left, with ARCS<\/abbr> Scholar of the Year BJ Fulton and 糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Mānoa Institute for Astronomy Director Guenther Hasinger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Expansion of the Universe may be accelerating, but so is our understanding, thanks to R. Brent Tully<\/strong>, ARCS<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a> Honolulu Chapter’s 2016 Scientist of the Year. Tully is considered a father of modern observational cosmology after 40 years of doing “cosmology up close” at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Mānoa’s Institute for Astronomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since establishing the “Tully-Fisher relation” with National Radio Astronomy Observatory<\/a> colleague Richard Fisher in 1977, Tully has used the powerful technique for measuring distances to study the expansion rate of the Universe and the distribution of dark matter. His 1987 Nearby Galaxies Atlas and companion catalog constituted the first three-dimensional depiction of the distribution of galaxies. The 2009 Extragalactic Distance Database and 2013 Cosmicflows-2 added distance and velocity information on thousands more galaxies.<\/p>\n

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