George Petros Efstathiou is a British astrophysicist born September 2, 1955, who served as Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2022 and was the founding director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology from 2008 to 2016, having earlier held the Savilian Professorship of Astronomy at Oxford. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994 and received the 2011 Gruber Prize in Cosmology and the 2022 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. He shared the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy with John Richard Bond.
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George Petros Efstathiou (; born 2 September 1955) is a British astrophysicist who was Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2022, where he was also the first director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology from 2008 to 2016.
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born 2 September 1955
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Efstathiou was born in London to Greek Cypriot immigrant parents who operated a fish and chip shop.
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Constructing the APM Galaxy Survey and measured large-scale galaxy clustering with Steve Maddox, Will Sutherland and Jon Loveday providing early evidence for the now-standard Lambda CDM model.
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is a British astrophysicist who was Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2022, where he was also the first director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology from 2008 to 2016.
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Efstathiou was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994. He received the 2011 Gruber P
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