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Carlos Silvestre Frenk CBE FRS (born 27 October 1951)[1] is a Mexican-British cosmologist and the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.[2][3] His main interests lie in the fields of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation.[4]

Carlos Frenk CBE FRS
Carlos Frenk in 2012
Born	Carlos Silvestre Frenk (1951-10-27) 27 October 1951 (age 71)
Citizenship	Mexican, British
Alma mater	University of Mexico (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards	Hoyle Medal and Prize (2010) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2011) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014) Max Born Prize (2017) Rumford Medal (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	Durham University Virgo Consortium University of Sussex University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Globular clusters in the galaxy and in the Large Magellanic Cloud (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Bernard J. T. Jones
Website	star-www.dur.ac.uk/~csf

Early life and education

Carlos Frenk was born in Mexico City, Mexico and is the eldest son of six siblings.[5] His father is a German Jewish doctor who emigrated from Germany at the age of 7, fleeing persecution in the lead up to World War II. His mother is a Mexican–Spanish pianist.[6]

Frenk studied engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico but later changed to Theoretical Physics, earning an undergraduate degree in 1976.[1][7] Later that year he secured a British Council Fellowship and enrolled at the University of Cambridge to read Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, which he was awarded in 1977. He remained at Cambridge for doctoral studies under the supervision of Bernard J. T. Jones[8] and was awarded a PhD in astronomy in 1981.[9]

Career and research

Following an endowment from Peter Ogden in 2001, Frenk became the inaugural Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University and continues to hold this position today.[2] He is also co-Principal Investigator of the Virgo Consortium, alongside Simon White.[10] Frenk became the Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology when it was established in 2001. He held this post until 2020 when he was succeeded by Shaun Cole.[11][12]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2004[13] and is a member of the Royal Society's Council.[14] He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2014.[15] Other awards and honours include:

• 2021 Rumford Medal[16]
• 2020 Dirac Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics[17]
• 2020 Clarivate Citation Laureate in Physics[18]
• 2017 Max Born Prize of the German Physical Society[19]
• 2014 Gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society[20]
• 2013 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award^{[citation needed]}
• 2013 Lansdowne Visitor, University of Victoria, Canada^{[citation needed]}
• 2013 The Biermann Lectures, Max Planck Society^{[citation needed]}
• 2011 Gruber Prize in Cosmology ($500,000, jointly with Marc Davis, George Efstathiou, Simon White)[21]
• 2010 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics[22]
• 2010 George Darwin Lectureship, Royal Astronomical Society[23]
• 2007 Daniel Chalonge medal, Observatoire de Paris[24]
• 2006 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[13]
• 2006 The Withrow lecture, Royal Astronomical Society^{[citation needed]}
• 2004 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[13]
• 2004 Ranked 2nd most cited author in Space Sciences in the world in the past 10 years.^{[citation needed]}
• 2002 Ranked 5th most cited physical scientist in UK since 1980^{[citation needed]}
• 2000–2001 Leverhulme Research Fellowship^{[citation needed]}
• 2000 Ranked 16th most cited physical scientist in the UK during the 1990s^{[citation needed]}
• 1996–1999 PPARC Senior Fellowship^{[citation needed]}
• 1992–1993 Sir Derman Christopherson Fellowship, University of Durham
• 1991–1992 Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship
• 1985 SERC Advanced Fellowship (declined)
• 1976–1979 British Council Fellowship^{[citation needed]}
• 1976 Gabino Barreda medal for first place in Theor. Phys. degree

Frenk was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cosmology and the public dissemination of basic science.[25] He was interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs, first broadcast in 2018.[7]

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Sources

•  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

External links

• Media related to Carlos Frenk at Wikimedia Commons

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Carlos Silvestre Frenk (* 27. Oktober 1951) ist ein britisch-mexikanischer Astrophysiker. Er befasst sich mit Computermodellen zur Strukturentstehung im Universum.

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