Cathie Clarke
Catherine Jane Clarke FRS is a Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. In 2017 she became the first woman to be awarded the Eddington Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2022 she became the first female director of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.
Cathie Clarke | |
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| Born | Catherine Jane Clarke |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Awards | Eddington Medal (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Star formation Exoplanets |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Accretion disc structure in binary star and galactic potentials (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Geoffrey Bath |
| Doctoral students | James E. Owen |
| Website | www |
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