Mark Birkinshaw (1954–2023) was a British physicist who held the William P. Coldrick chair in Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Bristol.

[1] He was the first to detect the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect.

[2] Birkinshaw died in 2023.

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