Andrew Fabian OBE FRS
86th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
In office 2008–2010
Preceded by	Michael Rowan-Robinson
Succeeded by	Roger Davies
Personal details
Born	Andrew Christopher Fabian (1948-02-20)20 February 1948 (age 77)[1]
Nationality	British
Spouse	Carolin Crawford ​ (m. 1991)​ [2]
Website	www.csap.cam.ac.uk/network/andrew-fabian
Scientific career
Education	DaventryGrammar school[1]
Alma mater	King's College London (BSc) University College, London (PhD)
Awards	Bruno Rossi Prize (2001) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2008) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2012) Bruce Medal (2016) Kavli Prize (2020)
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University of Cambridge
Thesis	The small scale isotropy of the cosmic X-ray background (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Peter W. Sanford[3]
Doctoral students	Niel Brandt Carolin Crawford[3][4] Tiziana Di Matteo[5] Chris Done Christopher S. Reynolds

Andrew Christopher Fabian (born 20 February 1948) is a Britishastronomer andastrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was aRoyal Society Research Professor at theInstitute of Astronomy,Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master ofDarwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of theRoyal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010.^[6]

Fabian was educated atKing's College London (BSc, Physics) and theMullard Space Science Laboratory atUniversity College London (PhD).^[7]

Fabian wasGresham Professor of Astronomy atGresham College, a position in which he delivered free public lectures within theCity of London between 1982 and 1984.^[8] He waseditor-in-chief of the astronomy journalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1994–2008.^[9]

His areas of research includegalaxy clusters,active galactic nuclei, stronggravity,black holes and theX-ray background. He has also worked onX-ray binaries,neutron stars andsupernova remnants in the past. Much of his research involvesX-ray astronomy and high energyastrophysics. His notable achievements include his involvement in the discovery ofbroad iron lines emitted fromactive galactic nuclei, for which he was jointly awarded theBruno Rossi Prize. He is author of over 1000 refereed articles^[10] and head of the X-ray astronomy group at the Institute of Astronomy.^[11]

Fabian was awarded theDannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by theAmerican Astronomical Society in 2008, theGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2012,^[12] and theKavli Prize for Astrophysics in 2020.^[13]

In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of theNational Academy of Sciences^[14] and awarded theBruce Gold Medalby theAstronomical Society of the Pacific.^[15]

In August 2020 Fabian was a guest on theBBC Radio 4 programme 'The Life Scientific'.^[16]

Scholia has a profile forAndrew C. Fabian(Q363059).

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