Joseph Silk | |
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 Silk in 2015 | |
| Born | 3 December 1942 London, England |
| Citizenship | UK United States[citation needed] |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge University of Manchester Harvard University |
| Awards | Royal Society Bakerian Medal (2007) Balzan Prize (2011) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology |
| Institutions | Institut d'astrophysique de Paris University of Oxford University of California, Berkeley Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral students | Max Tegmark[1] |
Joseph Ivor Silk FRS (born 3 December 1942) is a British-American [citation needed] astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011.
He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected May 1999). He was awarded the 2011 Balzan Prize for his works on the early Universe.[3] Silk has given more than two hundred invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology.
- ^ ""Max Tegmark / Professor of Physics"". web.mit.edu. MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ "New College, Oxford: Joseph Silk". Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- ^ "Joseph Ivor Silk". International Balzan Prize Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2013.