John A. Peacock

John Peacock
Born	John Andrew Peacock (1956-03-27) 27 March 1956 Shaftesbury, England, UK
Fields	Astrophysics, Cosmology
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge
Thesis	The radio spectra and cosmological evolution of extragalactic radio sources (1990)
Doctoral advisor	M. Longair, J. Wall
Known for	Large-scale structure of galaxies
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2006) Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2014)
Spouse	Heather Peacock
Website www.roe.ac.uk/~jap/

John Andrew Peacock, FRS, FRSE (born 27 March 1956)^[1] is a British cosmologist, astronomer, and academic. He has been Professor of Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh since 1998.^[2] He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize.^[3]

Personal life

In 1982, Peacock married Heather. She is a nurse and medical educator. Together, they have three children: Duncan (born 1986), Imogen (born 1989), and Sophie (born 1991).^[4]

Honours

In 2006, Peacock was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).^[5] In 2007, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).^[6] In 2014, he was jointly awarded the Shaw Prize for Astronomy 'for their contributions to the measurements of features in the large-scale structure of galaxies used to constrain the cosmological model including baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions'. His co-recipients were Daniel Eisenstein and Shaun Cole.^[3]

References

↑ "Curriculum Vitae: John Andrew Peacock" (PDF). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
↑ "Biographical Notes of Laureates". The Shaw Prize Foundation. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
1 2 "The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2014". The Shaw Prize Foundation. 27 May 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
↑ "Autobiography - John A Peacock". Shaw Laureates. The Shaw Prize. 24 September 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
↑ "Directory 2013/14" (pdf). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
↑ "Fellows". The Royal Society. Retrieved 5 June 2014.

Shaw Prize laureates

Astronomy	Jim Peebles (2004) Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor (2005) Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2006) Peter Goldreich (2007) Reinhard Genzel (2008) Frank Shu (2009) Charles Bennett, Lyman Page and David Spergel (2010) Enrico Costa and Gerald Fishman (2011) David Jewitt and Jane Luu (2012) Steven Balbus and John Hawley (2013) Daniel Eisenstein, Shaun Cole and John Peacock (2014) William Borucki (2015)

Life science and medicine	Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer, Kan Yuet-wai and Richard Doll (2004) Michael Berridge (2005) Xiaodong Wang (2006) Robert Lefkowitz (2007) Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka (2008) Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman (2009) David Julius (2010) Jules Hoffmann, Ruslan Medzhitov and Bruce Beutler (2011) Franz-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur Horwich (2012) Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young (2013) Kazutoshi Mori and Peter Walter (2014) Bonnie Bassler and Everett Peter Greenberg (2015)

Mathematical science	Shiing-Shen Chern (2004) Andrew Wiles (2005) David Mumford and Wu Wenjun (2006) Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor (2007) Vladimir Arnold and Ludvig Faddeev (2008) Simon Donaldson and Clifford Taubes (2009) Jean Bourgain (2010) Demetrios Christodoulou and Richard Hamilton (2011) Maxim Kontsevich (2012) David Donoho (2013) George Lusztig (2014) Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniec (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 162250459 LCCN: n91019661 SUDOC: 081295820 BNF: cb122820091 (data)

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