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Richard McMahon
Born
Richard Gerard McMahon

(1959-04-08) 8 April 1959 (age 65)
NationalityBritish, Irish
Alma materQueens University Belfast
University of Cambridge
AwardsGruber Prize in Cosmology (shared) 2007
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (shared) 2014
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge (1988 - Present)
Thesis Discovery and Study of High Redshift Quasars  (1988)
Doctoral advisorCyril Hazard


Richard McMahon (born 1959) is a Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. McMahon was Director and Head of Department of Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2017 to 2022.


Education and Early Life

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McMahon was born in Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. McMahon was educated at Christian Brothers Grammar School, Omagh. He studied for a BSc in Physics at Queen's University Belfast and then a PhD in Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge under the supervision of Cyril Hazard and Roberto Terlevich.

Research

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HCM-6A

Supernova Cosmology Project

Dark Energy Survey

Richard McMahon publications indexed by Google Scholar

Awards

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