Education
B.A., 1970, Magdalene College, Cambridge, M.A.,1974, Univ. of Cambridge,
Ph.D., 1974, Magdalene College, Cambridge.Professional
Academic
History
Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1973-1976; Assistant
Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1976-1979; Professor, California
Institute of Technology, 1979-1989; Richard Chace Tolman Professor of
Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1989-2003;
Executive Officer for Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1992-1995;
Pehong and Adele Chen Professor of Physics and Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, and Director, Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Cosmology,
2003-present; Chair, High Energy Astrophysics Division, American Astronomical
Society, 2004-present. Awards and Honors
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1974-1975 and 1998; Alfred P. Sloan
Fellow, 1980-1984; Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1982;
Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-1990; Fellow of Royal Society, 1989; Fellow of American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993; Dannie Heineman Prize, American Astronomical
Society, 1998; Member, American Astronomical Society; Eddington Medal, Royal
Astronomical Society, 1999.Research Areas
Research interests include cosmology; black hole astrophysics,
gravitational lensing; galaxies; cosmic rays; neutron stars; and white
dwarfs.
SLAC Last update on
26 Jan 2007 by McDunn
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