Andrew Fabian

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name = Andrew Christopher Fabian


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field = Astronomy
work_institution = Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Darwin College, Cambridge
alma_mater = University College, London
Mullard Space Science Laboratory
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prizes = Fellow of the Royal Society (1996)
Bruno Rossi Prize (2001)
Order of the British Empire (2006)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2008)
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Andrew Christopher Fabian, OBE, FRS (born 20 February 1948) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He became President of the Royal Astronomical Society in May 2008 [ [http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1465&Itemid=2 RAS press release] ] . He was also Editor-in-Chief of the astronomy journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society".

His current areas of research include
* galaxy clusters,
* active galactic nuclei, strong gravity, black holes and
* the X-ray background.He has also worked on X-ray binaries, neutron stars and supernova remnants in the past. Much of his research involves X-ray astronomy and high energy astrophysics. His notable achievements include his involvement in the discovery of broad iron lines emitted from active galactic nuclei, for which he was jointly awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize. He is author of over 700 refereed articles [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&author=fabian%2C+a.c.&nr_to_return=1000&jou_pick=NO ADS] , last run in August 2007] and head of the X-ray astronomy group at the Institute of Astronomy [ [http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/ Institute of Astronomy X-ray Group] ] . Fabian was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics by the American Astronomical Society in 2008.

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