Steven Rawlings

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Steven Gregory Rawlings (11 October 1961 – 11 January 2012) was a British astrophysicist who worked at the University of Oxford as a professor of astrophysics and a fellow of St Peter's College. He studied physics at St John's College, Cambridge, and earned a PhD in radio astronomy in 1988.

Rawlings was one of the lead scientists on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. He also spoke at the SKADS Conference in Limelette, Belgium, on 4 November 2009.

Rawlings died on 11 January 2012 at the Southmoor home of his close friend Dr Devinder Sivia. Sivia said Rawlings, who had been receiving treatment for mental health issues, began a physical attack, and Sivia restrained him. Rawlings died of a heart attack shortly afterward. The coroner ruled the death accidental.

He and Sivia co-wrote Foundations of Science Mathematics, published in 1999 by Oxford University Press. In 2013, the LOFAR radio telescope station at Chilbolton Observatory was named The Rawlings Array in his honour.