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John A. Peacock

Astronomy

John Andrew Peacock is a British cosmologist, astronomer and academic born March 27, 1956, Professor of Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh since 1998, specializing in the large scale structure of galaxies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, elected 2006, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, elected 2007, and he shared the 2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with Daniel Eisenstein and Shaun Cole.

Facts
Birth Year
1956 1
Birth Date
1956-03-27 1
Field
Astrophysics, Cosmology 1
Nationality
British 1
Birthplace
Shaftesbury, England 1
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1. John A. Peacock - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, birth_date
    1956-03-27
  • Infobox, birth_place
    Shaftesbury, England
  • Extract, opening sentence
    John Andrew Peacock ... is a British cosmologist, astronomer, and academic
  • Infobox, field
    Astrophysics, Cosmology
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