Simon Patrick Swordy (March 31, 1954[1] – July 19, 2010) was an English-born American astrophysicist.
Swordy moved to the United States in 1979 and accepted a research associate position at the Enrico Fermi Institute.
[3] In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[f]or innovative measurements with detectors on the ground, on balloons, and in space that significantly advanced the understanding of the sources and galactic propagation of cosmic rays at high energies.
[3] At the time of his death, Swordy was the James Franck Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago.
[3] He died of lymphoma at the University of Chicago Medical Center on 19 July 2010, aged 56.