Royal Astronomical Society of Britain: Gold Medal to Professor George Efstathiou

The British Royal Society of Astronomy has announced that it is awarding its top distinction, the Gold Medal of Astronomy for 2022, to George Efstathiou, a Greek Cypriot professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading cosmologists.

The Gold Medal, first awarded in 1824, is a recognition of all the work and achievements of a scientist and has been honored in the past by renowned scientists such as Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Arthur Eddington and Steven Steven. . Since 1964 he has been awarded one gold medal for astronomy and one for geophysics (this year he is awarded to Professor Richard Horn of the British Mission to Antarctica).

According to the reasoning of the award, G. Efstathiou “is among the most distinguished cosmologists of his generation, one of the architects of the established model of LCDM cosmology”. Among other things, he has made pioneering computational simulations of the structure of the universe and important analyzes of cosmic background radiation (CMB).

George Efstathiou was born in 1955 in London to parents who had immigrated from Cyprus to Britain in the early 1950s. He studied Physics at Oxford University (1976) and received his PhD in astronomy from Durham University (1979). After doing postdoctoral research at the University of Berkeley (USA) and teaching at the University of Oxford where he was head of the Department of Astrophysics until 1994, he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he was director of the Institute of Astronomy until 2008. of the Institute of Cosmology. Among other international awards (Maxwell, Heineman, Gruber, Nemitsas Awards), he has been honored with the Bodossakis Foundation Astrophysics Award (1994).

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