Joseph Silk
Joseph Ivor Silk is a British-American astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011.
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Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Awards
- 🏆 Balzan Prize🏆 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society🏆 Royal Society Bakerian Medal🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 David Layzer
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Wayne Hu📖 James Lequeux📖 James Bartlett
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1942
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