Joseph Silk
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For the American politician, see Joseph Silk (politician).
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.
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Born | (1942-12-03) 3 December 1942 (age 81) London, England |
Citizenship | UK United States[citation needed] |
Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge 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] |
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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.