Andrew C. Fabian

1948 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University College London, King's College London

award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Petrie Prize Lecture, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, Bruce Medal, Bruno Rossi Prize, Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010. Source: Wikipedia (en)