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John Kormendy

218

Works

20,298

Citations

52

h-index

89

i10-index

Research Topics

Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Affiliations

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa1990–1995

California Institute of Technology1977–1977

Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics1983–1990

University of Hawaii System1991–2005

Max Planck Society2008–2011

Top Works

The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers

John Magorrian,Scott Tremaine,et al.

19983,738 citations

Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation

Scott Tremaine,Karl Gebhardt,et al.

20022,438 citations

Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

John Kormendy,D. O. Richstone

19952,362 citations

THE<i>M</i>-σ AND<i>M</i>-<i>L</i>RELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER

Kayhan Gültekin,D. O. Richstone,et al.

20091,459 citations

Brightness distributions in compact and normal galaxies. II - Structure parameters of the spheroidal component

1977602 citations

The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST.I.An Observational Survey

Tod R. Lauer,Edward A. Ajhar,et al.

1995576 citations

Families of ellipsoidal stellar systems and the formation of dwarf elliptical galaxies

1985412 citations

The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

Andrea Cattaneo,S. M. Faber,et al.

2009390 citations

A REVISED PARALLEL-SEQUENCE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES: STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF S0 AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

John Kormendy,R. Bender

2011350 citations