George Efstathiou

George Efstathiou
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.j/; 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]

Education

Efstathiou was educated at Tottenham Grammar School which he left at age 16 and to which he returned as a lab technician. He then studied at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Durham where he was awarded a PhD in 1979.[3]

Career and research

Efstathiou was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California, Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at King's College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988. He was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in 1988 (a post held in conjunction with a fellowship of New College, Oxford). He was head of astrophysics between 1988 and 1994. He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics (1909) and a fellow of King's College. Efstathiou was director of the Institute of Astronomy between 2004 and 2008. He became the first director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in 2008.[4]

Efstathiou has made a number of notable contributions to research in cosmology, including:

Awards and honours

He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1990. In 1994 he was both appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and was awarded the Bodossaki Foundation Academic and Cultural Prize for Astrophysics. Other awards include the Robinson Prize in Cosmology (Newcastle University, 1997) and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (American Institute of Physics and American Astronomical Society) in 2005, jointly with Simon White.[4] He received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for 2011 jointly with Marc Davis, Carlos Frenk and Simon White, the Nemitsas Prize in Physics for 2013 and the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2015.[9] In 2022 Efstathiou was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, its highest honour, whose previous recipients include Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble and Fred Hoyle.[10]

References

  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.
  3. ^ Efstathiou, George Petros (1979). On the rotation and clustering of galaxies. etheses.dur.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Durham University. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.454460.Free access icon
  4. ^ a b Anon (2017). "Efstathiou, Prof. George Petros". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.14741. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Davis, M.; Efstathiou, G.; Frenk, C. S.; White, S. D. M. (May 1985). "The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter". The Astrophysical Journal. 292: 371. Bibcode:1985ApJ...292..371D. doi:10.1086/163168.
  6. ^ Bond, J. R.; Efstathiou, G. (October 1984). "Cosmic background radiation anisotropies in universes dominated by nonbaryonic dark matter". The Astrophysical Journal. 285: L45. Bibcode:1984ApJ...285L..45B. doi:10.1086/184362.
  7. ^ Efstathiou, G.; Sutherland, W. J.; Maddox, S. J. (27 December 1990). "The cosmological constant and cold dark matter". Nature. 348 (6303): 705–707. Bibcode:1990Natur.348..705E. doi:10.1038/348705a0. S2CID 12988317.
  8. ^ Efstathiou, G.; Moody, Stephen; Peacock, John A.; Percival, Will J.; Baugh, Carlton; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Bridges, Terry; Cannon, Russell; Cole, Shaun; Colless, Matthew; Collins, Chris; Couch, Warrick; Dalton, Gavin; Propris, Roberto De; Driver, Simon P.; Ellis, Richard S.; Frenk, Carlos S.; Glazebrook, Karl; Jackson, Carole; Lahav, Ofer; Lewis, Ian; Lumsden, Stuart; Maddox, Steve; Norberg, Peder; Peterson, Bruce A.; Sutherland, Will; Taylor, Keith (February 2002). "Evidence for a non-zero and a low matter density from a combined analysis of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and cosmic microwave background anisotropies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 330 (2): L29 – L35. arXiv:astro-ph/0109152. Bibcode:2002MNRAS.330L..29E. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05215.x. S2CID 14352991.
  9. ^ "Hughes Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
  10. ^ Royal Astronomical Society announces 2022 Gold Medal winner

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