He is expected to be formally arraigned on his federal charges tomorrow morning in the U.S. Marshals and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents. International fugitive and accused child rapist Kenneth John Freeman has been returned to the United States from China today, in the custody of Deputy U.S. Marshals Serviceįormer Lawman And Accused Child Rapist Returned To Washington State To Face Charges He has co-authored a book on dark matter.Alleged Child Rapist Returned to U.S. He has been an invited speaker at 154 international conferences since 1969. He is active in international astronomy, as a division past-president of the International Astronomical Union, and serves on visiting committees for several major astronomical institutions around the world. Five of his students have won Hubble Fellowships.

He currently supervises Stephanie Monty on globular cluster populations in the Milky Way. He is very active in supporting graduate students and has acted as primary supervisor for 60 PhD students and 12 postdocs. He regularly visits the Space Telescope Science Institute as Distinguished Visiting Scientist. His research interests are in the formation and dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters, and he is particularly interested in the problem of dark matter in galaxies: he was one of the first to point out that spiral galaxies contain a large fraction of dark matter. Apart from a year in the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen in 1976 and some occasional absences overseas, he has been at Mount Stromlo ever since. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas with Gérard de Vaucouleurs, and a research fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he returned to Australia in 1967 as a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at Mount Stromlo.

He then went to Cambridge University for postgraduate work in theoretical astrophysics with Leon Mestel and Donald Lynden-Bell, and completed his doctorate in 1965. He was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1940, studied mathematics and physics at the University of Western Australia, and graduated with first class honours in applied mathematics in 1962. Kenneth Charles Freeman AC FAA FRS (born 27 August 1940) is an Australian astronomer and astrophysicist who is currently Duffield Professor of Astronomy in the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Mount Stromlo Observatory of the Australian National University in Canberra.

US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate.Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1999).

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