Max Pettini
Max Pettini FRS (born 15 June 1949) is a Professor of observational astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.[1]
Pettini was born in Rome but studied for a BSc in Physics then a PhD in Astrophysics at University College London. Aside from four years at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Epping, New South Wales from 1987 to 1991, his academic career has been based in the United Kingdom, and he holds British citizenship.[1]
His early research obtained observational evidence that verified a prediction that the Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot ionised gas.[2]
Pettini was awarded the Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2008. In May 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2] Together with Ryan Cooke, he was awarded the 2025 Gruber Prize in Cosmology.[3] Pettini had previously supervised Cooke from 2008 to 2011, when the latter was completing his doctorate at Cambridge.[4]
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