Richard Massey
Physicist, Person
1977 –
Who is Richard Massey?
Dr. Richard Massey is a physicist currently working as Royal Society Research Fellow in the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University. Previously he was a senior research fellow in astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology and STFC Advanced Fellow at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh. He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, graduated in Maths and Physics from the University of Durham and completed his Ph.D in Cambridge in 2003.
Massey is most well known for his studies of dark matter, including the first 3D map of its large-scale distribution and it behaviour during collisions. He was awarded the 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics. He has featured in several TV documentaries, including BBC's Horizon documentary "How Big is the Universe?" in 2013 and online.
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- Born
- Oct 14, 1977
- Also known as
- Dr. Richard Massey
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Durham University
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on July 23, 2013
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