John Kormendy (born June 13, 1948; Graz, Austria),[1] is an American astronomer, currently the Curtis T. Vaughn, Jr. Centennial Chair at University of Texas at Austin.
[2][3][4] He is known for the Kormendy relation found in the surface brightness profiles for elliptic galaxies.
[5][6] He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1970), the Muhlmann Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1988), a Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2006), and External Membership in the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching-by-Munich, Germany (2012).
[7] In 2020, Kormendy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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