(Geoffrey) Michael Rowan-Robinson FRAS FInstP (born 9 July 1942)[4] is an astronomer, astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at Imperial College London.
[8] Rowan-Robinson co-supervised Brian May's PhD in Astrophysics initially supervised by James Ring and Ken Reay.
[citation needed] In November 2021 he published an article on the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society regarding the search for Planet Nine using IRAS data.
[9] His publications[10][11] and books include: Rowan-Robinson was awarded the 2008 Hoyle Medal by the Institute of Physics for his research in infrared and submillimetre astronomy, and observational cosmology.
The credit notes that, even though Rowan-Robinson's contributions have been in extragalactic astronomy, he was able to use data from IRAS to set a limit on the number of undiscovered Jupiter-like planets beyond the orbit of Neptune.