Residence UK Role Educator Name Joseph Silk | Nationality British American Fields Cosmology | |
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Born December 3, 1942 (age 81) London, England ( 1942-12-03 ) Institutions Institut d'astrophysique de ParisUniversity of OxfordUniversity of California, BerkeleyJohns Hopkins University Alma mater Clare College, CambridgeHarvard University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books A short history of the univer, The Infinite Cosmos, The Big Bang, Horizons of Cosmology, Cosmic enigmas | ||
A competition between gravity radiation and cooling professor joseph silk
Joseph Ivor Silk FRS (born 3 December 1942) is a British astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011. He was educated at Tottenham County School (1954–1960) and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1960–1963). He gained his PhD in Astronomy from Harvard in 1968. Silk took up his first post at Berkeley in 1970, and the Chair in Astronomy in 1978. Following a career of nearly 30 years there, Silk returned to the UK in 1999 to take up the Savilian Chair at the University of Oxford. He is currently Professor of Physics at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University (since in 2010), and Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College since 2015.
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- A competition between gravity radiation and cooling professor joseph silk
- Black holes professor joseph silk
- Silk damping
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He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected May 1999). He was awarded the 2011 Balzan Prize for his works on the early Universe. Silk has given more than two hundred invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology.
Black holes professor joseph silk
Silk damping
The structure of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies is principally determined by two effects: acoustic oscillations and diffusion damping. The latter is also called collisionless or Silk damping after Joseph Silk.
Publications
Silk has over 500 publications, of which 3 have been cited over 400 times, 20 have been published in Nature and 11 in Science.
In 2011, Silk delivered a talk, "The Creation of the Universe," at the first Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands. The talk was subsequently published in the book Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space.