Mike Disney

Michael John Disney is an astrophysicist. He discovered the optical component of the Crab Pulsar in 1969 with John Cocke, which was the first optical pulsar ever observed.
Disney was a member of the team that designed the camera for the Hubble Space Telescope. He was one of the pioneers in the discovery of low surface brightness galaxies.
Disney was a professor at Cardiff University until his forced retirement in 2005.
Disney is an outspoken critic of the standard model of cosmology.
He was the co-author with Alan Wright of the humorous short story 'Impure Mathematics'.