Andrew Fabian

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Andrew Fabian
OBE FRS
86th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
In office
2008–2010
Preceded byMichael Rowan-Robinson
Succeeded byRoger Davies
Personal details
Born
Andrew Christopher Fabian

(1948-02-20) 20 February 1948 (age 76)[1]
NationalityBritish
Spouse
University College, London
(PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsInstitute of Astronomy, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
ThesisThe small scale isotropy of the cosmic X-ray background (1972)
Doctoral advisorPeter W. Sanford[3]
Doctoral studentsCarolin Crawford[3][4]
Christopher S. Reynolds

Andrew Christopher Fabian

Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010.[6]

Education

Fabian was educated at King's College London (BSc, Physics) and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London (PhD).[7]

Career and research

Fabian was Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, a position in which he delivered free public lectures within the City of London between 1982 and 1984.[8] He was editor-in-chief of the astronomy journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1994–2008.[9]

His areas of research include

active galactic nuclei, for which he was jointly awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize. He is author of over 1000 refereed articles[10] and head of the X-ray astronomy group at the Institute of Astronomy.[11]

Awards and honours

Fabian was awarded the

Kavli Prize for Astrophysics in 2020.[13]

In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences[14] and awarded the Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[15]

In August 2020 Fabian was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Life Scientific'.[16]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U15353. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258623. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ a b Andrew Fabian at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.293490. Archived from the original
    on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  5. ^ "No. 58014". The London Gazette. 17 June 2006. p. 10.
  6. ^ RAS press release Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  7. OCLC 926326493. Copac 18982917
    .
  8. ^ List of Astronomy Professors on the Gresham College website
  9. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49514.x
    .
  10. ^ ADS, last run 16 July 2015
  11. ^ Institute of Astronomy X-ray Group
  12. ^ "RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicists". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  13. ^ "2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics". www.kavliprize.org. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  14. ^ National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, News from the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 3 May 2016, archived from the original on 6 May 2016, retrieved 14 May 2016
  15. ^ "Past Recipients of the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal". Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  16. ^ "BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Andy Fabian on black holes". BBC. Retrieved 12 August 2020.

External links

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