Submitted by Matthew Bothwell on Wed, 18/12/2024 - 17:50
Congratulations to Professor George Efstathiou, who has been awarded an honorary degree from Durham University. Honorary graduates exemplify the highest levels of achievement in their spheres of activity.
Professor Karen O’Brien, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, said: "Our honorary graduates are leaders in their fields and exemplify our ethos of inspiring the extraordinary.
George was an original proponent of the ‘Cold Dark Matter’ theory on the origin of galaxies, which has become the Standard Model of cosmology. Professor Efstathiou has won numerous awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Based here at the University of Cambridge, he often collaborates with Durham colleagues and has close links with the Durham Institute for Computational Cosmology.