The British Royal Society of Astronomy announced that it awards its highest distinction, the Gold Medal of Astronomy for 2022, to a professor of Greek Cypriot origin astrophysics of the University of Cambridge George Efstathiou, one of the leading cosmologists in the world.
The Gold Medal, first awarded in 1824, is a recognition of all the work and achievements of a scientist and has been honored with it in the past. famous scientists such as Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Arthur Edington and Stephen Hawking.
Since 1964 one gold medal has been awarded for astronomy and one for geophysics (this year it is awarded to the professor Richard Horn of the British Mission to Antarctica), broadcasts the APE BPE.
According to the reasoning of the award, G. Efstathiou “is among the most distinguished cosmologists of his generation, one of the architects of the established model of LCDM cosmology”. Among other things, he has done pioneering computational simulations for the structure of the universe and important analyzes for background cosmic radiation (CMB).
Brief CV
George Efstathiou was born in 1955 in London to parents who had immigrated from Cyprus to Britain in the early 1950s. He studied Physics at Oxford University (1976) and received his PhD in astronomy from Durham University (1979). After doing postdoctoral research at the University of Berkeley (USA) and teaching at the University of Oxford where he was head of the Department of Astrophysics until 1994, he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he was director of the Institute of Astronomy until 2008. of the Institute of Cosmology. Among other international distinctions (Maxwell, Heineman, Gruber, Nemitsas Awards), he has been honored with the Bodossakis Foundation Astrophysics Award (1994).
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