George Efstathiou

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George Efstathiou
FRS
Born
George Petros Efstathiou

(1955-09-02) 2 September 1955 (age 69)
NationalityBritish
EducationTottenham Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (BA)
University of Durham (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology
InstitutionsUniversity of California Berkeley
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
University of Oxford
ThesisOn the rotation and clustering of galaxies (1979)
Doctoral advisorDick Fong[1]
Websitewww.ast.cam.ac.uk/~gpe

George Petros Efstathiou FRS (/ɛfˈstæθ.juː/; born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge and was the first director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge from 2008 to 2016. He was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.[2]

  1. ^ "Physics Tree - Richard Fong". Academictree.org. 5 August 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Universe is 80 million years older than thought – Hamilton Spectator – March 21, 2013". Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.