J. Richard Fisher (born c. 1950) is an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Charlottesville, VA. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park and his B.S. in Physics from the Pennsylvania State University.

Fisher, along with R. Brent Tully, proposed the now-famous Tully-Fisher relation in the paper, A New Method of Determining Distances to Galaxies (published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 54, No. 3, February 1977).

External links

• J. Richard Fisher's Homepage
• J. Richard Fisher's profile at the University of Virginia

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