Andrew Fabian

Andrew Fabian
OBE FRS
86th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
In office
2008–2010
Preceded byMichael Rowan-Robinson
Succeeded byRoger Davies
Personal details
Born
Andrew Christopher Fabian

(1948-02-20) 20 February 1948 (age 76)[1]
NationalityBritish
Spouse
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(m. 1991)​
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Websitewww.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/andrew-fabian
EducationDaventry Grammar school[1]
Alma materKing's College London (BSc)
University College, London (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsInstitute of Astronomy, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
ThesisThe small scale isotropy of the cosmic X-ray background (1972)
Doctoral advisorPeter W. Sanford[3]
Doctoral studentsCarolin Crawford[3][4]
Christopher S. Reynolds
Niel Brandt

Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010.[5]

  1. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Fabian, Prof. Andrew Christopher". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U15353. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Anon (2017). "Crawford, Prof. Carolin Susan". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258623. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Andrew Fabian at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Crawford, Carolin Susan (1988). The detection of distant cooling flows. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 53538712. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.293490. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  5. ^ RAS press release Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine