Joseph Silk

Joseph Silk ( born December 3, 1942 in London) is a professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford. He went back to Britain in 1999 to take over the Savilian Chair of Astronomy of the Oxford Astrophysics Department after a 30 -year career at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Silk worked among others in Munich, Paris, Groningen and Baltimore. He graduated at Harvard University, has held more than two hundred lectures at conferences and published over three hundred articles in professional journals, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology. He described the first time, among other things named after him Silk damping.

Published in 2005 was Joseph Silk an article in the journal Nature, in which he draws the conclusion that our universe has six dimensions, from which we can see only three. He said the presence of dark matter.

Honors and Awards

  • The infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology, Oxford University Press, 2006, German language edition of this: The almost infinite universe: boundary questions of cosmology, CH Beck, Munich, 2006
  • On the Shores of the Unknown: A Short History of the Universe, Cambridge University Press, 2005, German language edition of this: The history of the Cosmos: From the Big Bang to the universe of the future, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996
  • The Big Bang, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1989, German language edition, "The Big Bang ", Birkhäuser - Springer Verlag, 1990
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