Английская Википедия:Andrew King (astrophysicist)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox scientist Andrew Robert King, (born 1947) is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester.[1] His previous institutions include University College London and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and a visiting position at the Observatoire de Paris. He currently holds visiting positions at the Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam, and he is a visiting professor at Leiden University.[1] He has served as Editor and now is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the international astronomy journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.[2]

His research started with his PhD in relativistic cosmology, working with his supervisor George F. R. Ellis at the University of Cambridge.[1] He also worked with Stephen Hawking.[3] He has worked in the fields of General Relativity, binary star evolution, accretion discs and active galactic nuclei.[4]

In 2014 he received the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics".[5]

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