Joe Silk

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Joe (Joseph) Silk is the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. He came to the UK in 1999 to take up the position of chairman of the Oxford Astrophysics Department, following a nearly 30-year career at the University of California, Berkeley. He held distinguished positions in Munich, Paris, Groningen and Baltimore. Professor Silk, a graduate of Harvard, has given more than two hundred invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology.

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• On the Shores of the Unknown: A Short History of the Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2005