Joseph Silk

Joseph Silk
Silk in 2015
Born (1942-12-03) 3 December 1942 (age 81)
London, England
CitizenshipUK
United States[citation needed]
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
University of Manchester
Harvard University
AwardsRoyal Society Bakerian Medal (2007)
Balzan Prize (2011)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology
InstitutionsInstitut d'astrophysique de Paris
University of Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral studentsMax 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.

  1. ^ ""Max Tegmark / Professor of Physics"". web.mit.edu. MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. ^ "New College, Oxford: Joseph Silk". Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Joseph Ivor Silk". International Balzan Prize Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2013.