Joseph Silk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joseph Silk

British-American astronomer

Date of Birth: 03-Dec-1942

Place of Birth: London

Profession: astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Joseph Ivor Silk FRS (born 3 December 1942) is a British astrophysicist.
He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011.
He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected May 1999).
He was awarded the 2011 Balzan Prize for his works on the early Universe.
Silk has given more than two hundred invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology.