Max Pettini

Max Pettini (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. He has worked in the UK ever since, apart from four years at the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Epping, New South Wales from 1987 to 1991, and has British citizenship.[1]

His early research obtained observational evidence that verified a prediction that our galaxy 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]

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2010
Fellows	Gabriel Aeppli Ian Affleck Paul Brakefield Andrea Brand Eleanor Campbell Philip Candelas Peter Cawley Nicola Susan Clayton John William Connor Russell Cowburn Gideon Davies Donald Dawson Raymond Dolan Hugh Durrant-Whyte Lyndon Evans Richard Evershed Georg Gottlob Ben Green Robert Griffiths Roger Hardie Michael Hastings Andrew Hattersley Craig Hawker Ron Hay Ian Hickson Peter Horton Jeremy Hutson Victoria Kaspi Lewis Kay Ondrej Krivanek Angus Lamond Alan Lehmann Malcolm McCulloch Robin Murray Robin Perutz Max Pettini Thomas Platts-Mills Wolf Reik Loren Rieseberg Peter Rigby Ezio Rizzardo Elizabeth Simpson Alan Smith Eric Wolff
Honorary	Melvyn Bragg
Foreign	Pascale Cossart Carl Djerassi Ludvig Faddeev Edmond H. Fischer Michael Goodchild John B. Goodenough Detlef Weigel Kurt Wüthrich