# Joseph Silk
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Joseph Ivor Silk FRS (born 3 December 1942) is a British astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011.
He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected May 1999).
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying out a vision for the next fifty years, Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind (Princeton UP, 2022) is astrophysici...
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying out a vision for the next fifty years, Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind (Princeton UP, 2022) is astrophysici...
EP 618 Back to the Moon With Intent
To many, America’s ‘public’ space program has seemed stalled in recent years. With many pressing problems on planet Earth, have we given up imagining the possibilities of space as the new frontier and left those dreams to to private entrepreneurs and George Lucas and other Hollywood types? The ...
243 | Joseph Silk on Science on the Moon
The Earth's atmosphere is good for some things, like providing something to breathe. But it does get in the way of astronomers, who have been successful at launching orbiting telescopes into space. But gravity and the ground are also useful for certain things, like walking around. The Moon, fortu...
EP48: Joseph Silk - Going Back To The Moon, The Early Universe & Extraterrestrial Life
Joseph Silk is a world renowned astrophysicist. His latest book 'Back to the Moon' explores the reasons why humanity are returning to the Moon & what scientific projects should take priority. Joseph made groundbreaking discoveries whilst working on the early universe & has published multiple book...
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying out a vision for the next fifty years, Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind (Princeton UP, 2022) is astrophysici...
The Limits of Cosmology, Post-Planck
Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins Univ. Baltimore/Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "The Limits of Cosmology, Post-Planck". Abstract: I will discuss how one might follow up on the Planck satellite which has given us a re...
How Astronomy Changed our View of the Cosmos: from Gresham to the 21st Century
Thomas Gresham lived from 1519 to 1579. The first telescope was designed in 1608 in the Netherlands, and first pointed at the heavens by Galileo a year later. The greatest discoveries since the pre-telescope era have been that of the existence of many other planets around distant stars, and the v...
