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    The Professorships of Astrophysics are a number of professorships in astronomy at the University of Cambridge. The oldest and only permanently-established...
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  • George Efstathiou (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    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...
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    Donald Lynden-Bell (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    director of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, when it formed from the merger of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and the Cambridge Observatories...
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  • Debora Šijački (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    Center for Astrophysics, she returned to the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in 2013 as a university lecturer. She became Reader in Astrophysics and Cosmology...
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    Hiranya Peiris (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    a British astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge, where she holds the Professorship of Astrophysics (1909). She is best known for her work on the...
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    Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of...
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  • Nikku Madhusudhan (category University of Cambridge stubs)
    Nikku Madhusudhan is a Professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. He is credited with developing...
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    Mike Irwin (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    2012 Herschel Medal, which recognises investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics. He has also made contributions in the scientific...
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    and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, the CfA leads a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, Earth and space sciences...
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    The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the world's...
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    Hugh Newall (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    astrophysicist. He was Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at Cambridge. He was the son of Robert Stirling Newall FRS and his wife Mary, daughter of Hugh Lee Pattinson...
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    F. J. M. Stratton (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. The youngest of six sons...
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  • Anastasia Fialkov (category Professors of Astrophysics (Cambridge))
    Cambridge promoted her to Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology. "Prof Anastasia Fialkov", Academic and Research Staff, University of Cambridge Institute...
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    Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (category Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge)
    correct. Her work on the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics. Cecilia Helena Payne was one of three children born in Wendover...
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    Jayant Narlikar (category Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
    an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle...
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  • The Cavendish Astrophysics Group (formerly the Radio Astronomy Group) is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The group operates...
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  • Eric G. Blackman (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    in theoretical astrophysics with George B. Field. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge of Cambridge University and in...
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  • This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge. During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted...
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    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    of 84, and was the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics. Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore on 19 October 1910 of...
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    Royal Society Research Professor, and from 2003 Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, during 2004–2012. He...
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    Katherine Blundell (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    Katherine Mary Blundell OBE is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a supernumerary research fellow at St John's College, Oxford...
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    Somak Raychaudhury (category Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge)
    proceeded to obtain a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, as a member of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1990, supported by...
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    Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first...
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    Gary Ferland (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    La Serena, Chile 1992-1993 Visiting Professor, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Canada, 1998-1999 Visiting Astronomer...
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    Senior Wrangler is the top mathematics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in England, a position which has been described as "the greatest intellectual...
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  • Michael Rowan-Robinson (category Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge)
    astronomer, astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at Imperial College London. He previously served as head of the astrophysics group until May 2007 and...
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    housed in the old Cambridge Observatory building. It is a specialist library concentrating on the subjects of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. The...
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  • David Wilkinson (theologian) (category Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
    contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4. He has a PhD in astrophysics and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Wilkinson was born on 16 May...
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  • Anne-Christine Davis (category Cambridge mathematicians)
    theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge. She was the first woman to be appointed a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University. Her...
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    Barreca, professor of English literature at the University of Connecticut, author Katherine Blundell, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford Dame...
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