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Simon Mitton was born on 18 December, 1946 in Bristol, England, is a Simon Mitton is British astronomer and writer British astronomer and writer. Discover Simon Mitton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 18 December 1946
Birthday 18 December
Birthplace Bristol, England
Nationality Bristol

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1915

He has completed a large biography of the British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), published in April 2005, and reissued in 2011.

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1946

Simon Mitton (born 18 December 1946) is a British astronomer and writer.

He is based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge.

He has written numerous astronomical works.

The most well known of these is his biography of fellow Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle.

2012

Mitton was elected to Council of the Royal Astronomical Society 2012–2016, and chairman of the RAS library committee.

He is a College Fellow of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

He is a founder director of Total Astronomy Limited, a company based in Cambridge that provides media services for the astronomy and space industries.

Earlier in his career, while employed by the Cambridge University Press, he was the editor in question when Stephen Hawking famously put the success of his bestseller A Brief History of Time down to advice from his editor that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved.

As a result, the book included only a single equation, E = mc2.

Jointly with his wife Jacqueline Mitton, he occasionally gives astronomy lectures on cruise ships.

Mitton studied physics and astrophysics.

His undergraduate studies were at the Clarendon Laboratory and Trinity College, Oxford.

For his doctoral research in high-energy astrophysics, he studied at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, under Nobel Laureate Sir Martin Ryle FRS.

His postdoctoral career started under Sir Fred Hoyle FRS at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

Recently his principal research project has been in the history of astronomy, now his academic field.