Thomas Richard Marsh
- Life status
- Confirmed deceased
- Profession
- Astrophysicist
- Also recorded as
- Tom Marsh · T. R. Marsh
- Born
- Not recorded
- Age
- Not stated in the sources reached
- Died
- 2022–2022, La Silla area, Chile · known to the range
- Organisations
- University of Warwick, professor of astrophysics
- Works
- None catalogued yet
In plain words
Astrophysicist
Biography
Thomas Richard (Tom) Marsh, founding professor of astrophysics at the University of Warwick, is the person reported missing on La Silla in September 2022 (ESO) and named in the Warwickshire coroner's inquest listing.
Astrophysicist specialising in the accretion and evolution of binary star systems; founded the astrophysics research group at Warwick in 2003; awarded the Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2018.
Founding professor of astrophysics at the University of Warwick (ESO; RAS).
Reported missing on La Silla, Chile, on 16 September 2022 (ESO).
On 10 November 2022 the Chilean authorities announced that they had found his body about 2.5 km from the summit (ESO); the coroner's listing gives Chile as the place of death.
Died between 16 September 2022 (reported missing) and 10 November 2022 (body found); no read source gives a date of death.
Chile, near La Silla (coroner listing: place of death Chile; ESO: body found about 2.5 km from the summit).
HM Coroner for Warwickshire lists an inquest into his death, with a pre-inquest hearing on 1 December 2025; the listing read on 12 November 2026 shows no conclusion.
Research field: astrophysics, the profession documented for Thomas R. Marsh (binary star systems).
Not established
- Not establishedWhether the coroner's inquest has reached a conclusion, and the cause and manner of death, are not established in the reviewed sources. Not established in the reviewed sources; HM Coroner for Warwickshire inquest listing, read on 12 November 2026 (it shows a pre-inquest hearing on 1 December 2025 and no conclusion); ESO (2024) and Royal Astronomical Society (2022) announcements.; checked 12 Nov 2026.
Works
No works catalogued in the approved record yet. Works mentioned in sources appear as attributed statements in the biography.
Timeline
Events and cases
No case file is published for this person. Recorded life events are in the timeline above; a case is opened only with its own evidence and review.
Sources
- A Memorial for Tom Marsh on La Silla (opens in a new tab)European Southern Observatory, 2024 · Institution · read
- Professor Thomas Richard Marsh (inquest listing) (opens in a new tab)Warwickshire County Council (HM Coroner for Warwickshire) · Official record · read
- Professor Tom Marsh (opens in a new tab)Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 · Institution · read