About Mark Birkinshaw
Lived 1954 – 2023 (aged 68–69). Mark Birkinshaw was a British physicist and astronomer.
Mark Birkinshaw (1954–2023) was a British physicist who held the William P. Coldrick chair in Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Bristol. He was the first to detect the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect. Birkinshaw died in 2023.
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Who was Mark Birkinshaw?
British physicist
When was Mark Birkinshaw born?
Mark Birkinshaw was born in 1954.
When did Mark Birkinshaw die?
Mark Birkinshaw died in 2023.
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Mark Birkinshaw was a physicist and astronomer.
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Mark Birkinshaw was British.
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