| LC control no. | n 79090652 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Silk, Joseph, 1942- |
| Variant(s) | Silk, J. (Joseph), 1942- |
| See also | Employer: University of California, Berkeley Employer: University of Oxford Employer: Université Pierre et Marie Curie Employer: Johns Hopkins University Employer: Gresham College Graduate of: Harvard University Graduate of: University of Cambridge |
| Other standard no. | Q327196 31971989 0000000123201671 |
| Associated country | Great Britain United States |
| Associated place | Berkeley (Calif.) Oxford (England) |
| Birth date | 1942-12-03 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics Astronomy |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley University of Oxford Université Pierre et Marie Curie Johns Hopkins University Gresham College |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists Astronomers College teachers |
| Found in | His The big bang, c1980: t.p. (Joseph Silk, U. of Calif., Berkeley) CIP data sheet (b. 1942) Star formation, 1980?: t.p. (J. Silk) p. 131 (Joseph Silk; Dept. of Astron., Univ. of Calif, Berkeley) On the shores of the unknown, 2004: CIP t.p. (Joseph Silk) data sheet (b. Dec. 03, 1942) Wikipedia, January 20, 2022 (Joseph Silk; Joseph Ivor Silk FRS (born 3 December 1942) is a British-American astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011. Born in London, England. He was educated at Tottenham County School (1954-1960) and went on to study Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (1960-1963). He obtained his PhD in Astronomy from Harvard in 1968. Silk took up his first post at Berkeley in 1970, and the Chair in Astronomy in 1978. Following a career of nearly 30 years there, Silk returned to the UK in 1999 to take up the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. He is currently Professor of Physics at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University (since in 2010), and Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College from 2015 to 2019) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silk> |
| Associated language | eng |
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