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John E. Conway (born 1963) is a British astronomer. He is director of Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden. He was appointed professor of observational radio astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2010. His research concerns radio galaxies and radio telescope technology, particularly involving VLBI. His design for a spiral configuration of antennas was adopted for the telescope ALMA. Conway was one of the scientists portrayed in the 1991 TV series The Astronomers. References

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John E. Conway (born 1963) is a British astronomer. He is director of Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden. He was appointed professor of observational radio astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2010.

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“[I]n two dimensions the... [19 point] hexagonal lattice solves the packing, kissing, covering and quantizing problems. ...[T]his ...book is ...a search for similar nice patterns in higher dimensions.”
— Preface to 1st edition
“We are planning a sequel... The Geometry of Low-Dimensional Groups and Lattices which will contain two earlier papers...”
— Ref: John H. Conway, Complex and integral laminated lattices, TAMS 280 (1983) 463-490 [2,6,22]; John H. Conway, The , The Mitchell group, and related sphere packings PCPS 93 (1983) 421-440 [2,4,7,8,22]

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