Per Vidar Barth Lilje (born 11 March 1957) is a Norwegian astronomer.

He was born in Tønsberg. He took his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1988, and worked at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1989 to 1992. He became professor at the University of Oslo in 1993, and since 2005 he heads the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics there. His fields are cosmology and extragalactic astronomy.[1] In 2017 he was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Per Vidar Barth Lilje". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  2. ↑ "31 nye medlemmer valgt inn i Akademiet" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.