George Efstathiou

George Efstathiou

FRS
George Efstathiou; FRS
Born	George Petros Efstathiou; 2 September 1955
Nationality	British
Education	Tottenham Grammar School
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA); University of Durham (PhD)
Awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize (1990); Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2005); Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2011); Nemitsas Prize in Physics (2013); Hughes Medal of Royal Society (2015); Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2022);
	Scientific career
Fields	Cosmology
Institutions	University of California Berkeley; Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; University of Oxford
Thesis	On the rotation and clustering of galaxies (1979)
Doctoral advisor	Dick Fong
Website	www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~gpe

George Petros Efstathiou FRS (/ɛfˈstæθ.juː/; born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge and was the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge from 2008 to 2016. He was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.

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