Dennis McCarthy (scientist)
{{short description|American scientist}}
Dennis D. McCarthy is a former director of time at the United States Naval Observatory. McCarthy also works for the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7759281.stm |title=Meet the world's director of time |work=BBC News |date=2 December 2008 |access-date=6 December 2008}}{{cite web |url=http://www.usno.navy.mil/pao/History/directors.shtml |title=Superintendents, Scientific Directors, and Department Directors Of the U.S. Naval Observatory |access-date=6 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222064028/http://www.usno.navy.mil/pao/History/directors.shtml |archive-date=22 December 2008 |work=U.S. Naval Observatory |url-status=dead}} In recognition of his work on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation, McCarthy was inducted into the Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame on 6 April 2023 at a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Naval Observatory.{{cite web |last1=Holloway |first1=Jonathan B. |title=GPS Pioneer Inducted into Naval Oceanography Hall of Fame |url=https://www.cnmoc.usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/News-Stories/Article/3356785/gps-pioneer-inducted-into-naval-oceanography-hall-of-fame/ |website=U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command|publisher=U.S. Navy |access-date=12 April 2023 |date=10 April 2023}}
Selected publications
= Books =
- {{cite book | first1= Dennis D.|last1= McCarthy |first2= John D.H.|last2= Pilkington | date = 1979 | title = Time and the Earth's Rotation | publisher = Springer Netherlands | pages = | isbn = 978-90-277-0892-2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zce2wAEACAAJ}}
- {{cite book | editor1-first = Dennis D.|editor1-last= McCarthy | editor2-first = William E.|editor2-last= Carter | date = 1990 | title = Variations in Earth Rotation | publisher = American Geophysical Union | pages = | isbn = 978-0-87590-459-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_6My7JR6dRgC}}
- {{cite book | first1= Dennis D.|last1= McCarthy | first2= P. Kenneth|last2= Seidelmann | date = 2009 | title = Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics | publisher = Wiley | pages = | isbn = 978-3-527-62795-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7NdrK4e77CIC}}{{cite journal | last=Jefferts | first=Steven | title=Review of Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics by Dennis D. McCarthy and P. Kenneth Seidelmann | journal=Physics Today | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=63 | issue=12 | year=2010 | issn=0031-9228 | doi=10.1063/1.3529005 | pages=63–64| url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/63/12/63/844180/Time-From-Earth-Rotation-to-Atomic-Physics| doi-access=free }}
- {{cite book|title=2nd edition|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1107197282|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsBtDwAAQBAJ}}
= Papers =
- {{cite journal | last1 = McCarthy | first1 = Dennis D. | last2 = Babcock | first2 = Alice K. | title = The length of day since 1656 | journal = Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | date = November 1986 | volume = 44 | issue = 3 | pages = 281–292 | issn = 0031-9201 | doi = 10.1016/0031-9201(86)90077-4 | pmid = | bibcode = 1986PEPI...44..281M | url = }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = McCarthy | first1 = Dennis D. | last2 = Luzum | first2 = Brian J. | title = Prediction of Earth orientation | journal = Bulletin Géodésique | date = March 1991 | volume = 65 | issue = 1 | pages = 18–21 | issn = 0007-4632 | doi = 10.1007/BF00806338 | pmid = | bibcode = 1991BGeod..65...18M | url = }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = McCarthy | first1 = Dennis D. | last2 = Luzum | first2 = Brian J. | title = Path of the Mean Rotational Pole From 1899 to 1994 | journal = Geophysical Journal International | date = May 1996 | volume = 125 | issue = 2 | pages = 623–629 | issn = 0956-540X | eissn = 1365-246X | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb00024.x | pmid = | url = | doi-access = free | bibcode = 1996GeoJI.125..623M }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = McCarthy | first1 = Dennis D. | last2 = Hackman | first2 = Christine | last3 = Nelson | first3 = Robert A. | title = The Physical Basis of the Leap Second | journal = The Astronomical Journal | date = 7 October 2008 | volume = 136 | issue = 5 | pages = 1906–1908 | issn = 0004-6256 | eissn = 1538-3881 | doi = 10.1088/0004-6256/136/5/1906 | pmid = | bibcode = 2008AJ....136.1906M | url = }}
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