Shaun Cole
British cosmologist and academic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shaun Malcolm Cole (born 19 November 1963) is a British cosmologist.
Shaun Cole | |
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| Born | Chipping, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Oxford Clare College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Discovery of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Semi-analytical Models in Galaxy Formation |
| Awards | Shaw Prize (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cosmology, Galaxy formation, Galactic Astronomy |
| Institutions | University of California Berkeley Durham University |
| Doctoral advisor | George Efstathiou and Nick Kaiser |
| Website | star-www |
Cole has been Professor of Physics at Durham University since 2005 and is the current director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology.[1][2][3] He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize with Daniel Eisenstein and John A. Peacock.[4]
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