Malcolm Carl Wilhelm Fridlund (born 1952), is a Swedish

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. He wrote his doctoral thesis 1987 in

astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest ...

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

Fridlund, C. V. Malcolm, ''Infrared and CO studies of the young stellar object L1551 IRS5 and its associated bipolar outflow'', Univ., Diss. Stockholm : Univ.,Stockholm, 1987
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in Noordwijk in the

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as scientific project manager. Since 1996 Malcolm Fridlund is the scientific manager of the Darwin project. From the spring of 2006 is he also ESA project manager for the international COROT-project.

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