Joseph Ivor Silk FRS (born 3 December 1942) is a British-American 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.
Books in order of publication:
Cosmic Enigmas, Springer, 1994,
The Big Bang, W.H. Freeman, 2005
On the Shores of the Unknown: A Short History of the Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2005
The Infinite Cosmos, Oxford University Press, 2006
Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind – 2022
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