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British X-ray astronomer
Andrew Christopher Fabian
OBE
FRS
[1]
[5] (born 20 February 1948) is a British
astronomer and
astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a
Royal Society Research Professor at the
Institute of Astronomy,
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
galaxy clusters,
active galactic nuclei, strong
gravity,
black holes and the
X-ray background. He has also worked on
X-ray binaries,
neutron stars and
supernova remnants in the past. Much of his research involves
X-ray astronomy and high energy
astrophysics. His notable achievements include his involvement in the discovery of
broad iron lines emitted from
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
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the
American Astronomical Society in 2008, the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2012,
[12] and 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
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a
b
c Anon (2017).
"Fabian, Prof. Andrew Christopher".
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U15353. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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^ Anon (2017).
"Crawford, Prof. Carolin Susan".
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi:
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U258623. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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a
b
Andrew Fabian at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
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^ Crawford, Carolin Susan (1988).
The detection of distant cooling flows. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
53538712.
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.293490. Archived from
the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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"No. 58014".
The London Gazette. 17 June 2006. p. 10.
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RAS press release
Archived July 16, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine
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^ Fabian, Andrew Christopher.
The small-scale isotropy of the cosmic X-ray background. mssl.ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London.
OCLC
926326493.
Copac
18982917.
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^
List of Astronomy Professors on the Gresham College website
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^ Carswell, Bob; Clube, Kim (2008).
"Monthly Notices of the RAS". Astronomy & Geophysics. 49 (5): 14.
Bibcode:
2008A&G....49e..14C.
doi:
10.1111/j.1468-4004.2008.49514.x.
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ADS, last run 16 July 2015
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Institute of Astronomy X-ray Group
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"RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicists".
Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
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"2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics". www.kavliprize.org. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
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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
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"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.
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"BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Andy Fabian on black holes". BBC. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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