Andrew Fabian

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Abstract

Professor Fabian will speak on a topic of current astronomical interest.

Biography

Andrew Christopher Fabian, OBE,[2] FRS was educated at King's College London (BSc, Physics) and University College London (PhD). He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010. He was Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College 1982-84, a position in which he delivered free public lectures within the City of London. He was also editor-in-chief of the astronomy journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

His current 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 800 refereed articles and head of the X-ray astronomy group at the Institute of Astronomy. Fabian was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the American Astronomical Society in 2008 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2012.