Victor Clube, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Victor Clube

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1934

Place of Birth: London

Profession: astronomer, cricketer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Victor Clube

  • Stace Victor Murray Clube (born 22 October 1934 in London) is an English astrophysicist. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and Christ Church, Oxford.
  • in He played first-class cricket for Oxford University.
  • He appeared seventeen times for the university between 1956 and 1959, but only won a Blue—the awarding of the Oxford "colours" to sportsmen—in his first year there, appearing in the 1956 University match against Cambridge.
  • During that match, which finished as a draw, he took just one wicket with his off break bowling.Clube obtained his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis titled Interferometry of the Solar Chemosphere and Photosphere and went on to become a professional astrophysicist and astronomer.
  • He has been Dean of the Astrophysics Department of Oxford University, and has worked at the observatories of Edinburgh, Armagh and Cape Town.
  • He is known primarily for his work in collaboration with Bill Napier and others on the theory of "coherent catastrophism".In 1994 he appeared in the BBC Horizon programme; "The Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid". The asteroid 6523 Clube is named after him.

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