Mike Disney
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Michael John Disney is an astrophysicist. He discovered the optical component of the Crab Pulsar
Crab Pulsar
The Crab Pulsar is a relatively young neutron star. The star is the central star in the Crab Nebula, a remnant of the supernova SN 1054, which was widely observed on Earth in the year 1054...

 in 1969 with John Cocke. This was the first optical pulsar ever observed.

He was also one of the pioneers in the discovery of low surface brightness galaxies.

Disney was a professor at Cardiff University
Cardiff University
Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...

until his retirement in 2005, and is now Professor Emeritus.

He was the co-author with Alan Wright of the humorous (and often mis-attributed) short story 'Impure Mathematics'.

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