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|name = Simon Mitton |image = Simon Anthony Mitton 13-04-11.JPG |caption = Simon Mitton, Parc Phoenix Nice France 2013 |image_size = 200px |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|12|18|df=y}} |birth_place = Bristol, England |residence = UK |nationality = British |fields = Astronomer |workplaces = University of Cambridge |alma_mater = Trinity College, Oxford St. Edmund's College, Cambridge |doctoral_advisor = Sir Martin Ryle }}Simon Mitton (born 18 December 1946) is an astronomer and writer. He is based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He has written numerous astronomical works.[1][2][3] The most well known of these is his biography of fellow Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle.[4] CareerMitton was elected to Council of the Royal Astronomical Society 2012–2016, and chairman of the RAS library committee. He is a College Fellow[5] of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.[6] He is a founder director of Total Astronomy Limited,[7] a company based in Cambridge that provides media services for the astronomy and space industries. Earlier in his career, while employed by the Cambridge University Press, he was the editor in question when Stephen Hawking famously put the success of his bestseller A Brief History of Time down to advice from his editor that for every equation in the book the readership would be halved. As a result, the book included only a single equation, E = mc2.[8] Jointly with Jacqueline Mitton, he occasionally gives astronomy lectures on cruise ships.{{cn|date=April 2019}} He stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Castle ward in the Cambridge City Council election, 2015,[9] finishing in third place with 22.6% of the vote.[10] EducationMitton studied physics and astrophysics. His undergraduate studies were at the Clarendon Laboratory and Trinity College, Oxford. For his doctoral research in high-energy astrophysics, he studied at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, under Nobel Laureate Sir Martin Ryle FRS. His postdoctoral career started under Sir Fred Hoyle FRS at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. ResearchRecently his principal research project has been in the history of astronomy, now his academic field. He has completed a large biography of the British cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), published in April 2005, and reissued in 2011. HonoursAwards
References1. ^The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, 1978. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitton, Simon}}2. ^Exploring the Galaxies, 1974 3. ^Cambridge Scientific Minds 2000 4. ^"Fred Hoyle a life in Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/dept/mitton.html|title=Simon Mitton - People - HPS|first=|last=dt243@cam.ac.uk|website=www.hps.cam.ac.uk}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/|title=Department of History and Philosophy of Science|website=www.hps.cam.ac.uk}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.totalastronomy.com|title=Total Astronomy media consultancy : Home|website=www.totalastronomy.com}} 8. ^Review of 'The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen.' by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw.[Hannah Devlin, Science Correspondent, The Times, October 31, 2011] 9. ^https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/sites/www.cambridge.gov.uk/files/documents/CITY%20Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nom%20ALL.pdf 10. ^http://democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=137&RPID=43635996 8 : British astronomers|British science writers|Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge|Alumni of St Edmund's College, Cambridge|Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford|1946 births|Living people|Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers |
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