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George Efstathiou (George Petros Efstathiou) was born on 2 September, 1955 in London, United Kingdom, is a British astronomer. Discover George Efstathiou'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 68 years old?

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 2 September, 1955
Birthday 2 September
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1955

George Petros Efstathiou (born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist who is 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 from 2008 to 2016.

He was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford.

Efstathiou was educated at Tottenham Grammar School which he left at age 16 and to which he returned as a lab technician.

1979

He then studied at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Durham where he was awarded a PhD in 1979.

Efstathiou was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California, Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at King's College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988.

1988

He was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in 1988 (a post held in conjunction with a fellowship of New College, Oxford).

He was Head of Astrophysics between 1988 and 1994.

1990

He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1990.

1994

In 1994 he was both appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and was awarded the Bodossaki Foundation Academic and Cultural Prize for Astrophysics.

1997

He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics (1909) and a fellow of King's College.

Other awards include the Robinson Prize in Cosmology (Newcastle University, 1997) and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (American Institute of Physics and American Astronomical Society) in 2005, jointly with Simon White.

2004

Efstathiou was Director of the Institute of Astronomy between 2004 and 2008.

2008

He became the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology in 2008.

Efstathiou has made a number of notable contributions to research in cosmology, including:

2011

He received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology for 2011 jointly with Marc Davis, Carlos Frenk and Simon White, the Nemitsas Prize in Physics for 2013 and the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 2015.

In 2022 Efstathiou was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, its highest honour, whose previous recipients include Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble and Fred Hoyle.