Name Steven Rawlings | ||
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Died January 11, 2012, Southmoor, United Kingdom | ||
Steven Gregory Rawlings (11 October 1961 – 11 January 2012) was an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, where he held a Professorship in Astrophysics and a Fellowship at St Peter's College. He studied Physics and Theoretical Physics at St John's College, Cambridge and received his PhD in Radio Astronomy in 1988. He was one of the lead scientists in the Square Kilometre Array project.
Rawlings died at the home of his close friend and colleague Dr Devinder Sivia, a Lecturer in Mathematics for the Sciences at St John's College, on 11 January 2012. The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. Sivia and Rawlings co-wrote the book Foundations of Science Mathematics, published in 1999 by Oxford University Press.
On 27 August 2013, the LOFAR radio telescope station at Chilbolton Observatory was named The Rawlings Array in his honour.