William Tobin (astronomer)

In the 2019 United Kingdom general election he stood as an independent candidate against Boris Johnson in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.

From 1979 to 1982 Tobin held a postdoctoral lectureship at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and from 1982 to 1987 a position at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory.

He studied the past Transit of Venus expeditions and wrote a biography of the French physicist Léon Foucault.

[5] He returned to New Zealand in 2008 to take up a visiting Erskine Fellowship at Canterbury, in 2012 to attend the Starlight Conference in Tekapo and the 50th anniversary of the Mt John University Observatory in 2015.

[1] Tobin stood as a candidate in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency against Boris Johnson in the 2019 general election.

[1][2] Although he was a British citizen he had not been resident in Britain for more than 15 years making him ineligible to vote in the 2016 Brexit referendum or the general election.