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Richard McMahon (born 1959) is a professor of astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.[1]. From 2017-2022 he was the Director [2] and Head of Department of the Institute of Astronomy.
McMahon was born in County Tyrone, studied for a BSc in physics at Queens University Belfast, and completed his PhD at at the Institute of Astronomy.
McMahon's research primarily involves studying galaxies in the distant universe.
He is a founding member of the Supernova Cosmology Project, which used observations of distant supernovae to discover the acceleration of the Universe [3]. Saul Perlmutter, the leader of the project, was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.
McMahon was jointly awarded the Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2007 [4], and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2015.
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