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Simon Swordy

Swordy was born in Birmingham in 1954.^[2][3] Both his parents were teachers. His siblings included three brothers and one sister. Swordy was educated at St Philip's School and Barstable School.^[2] He studied under Peter Fowler at the University of Bristol, and graduated in 1978.

Swordy moved to the United States in 1979 and accepted a research associate position at the Enrico Fermi Institute. In 1986, he began teaching at the University of Chicago. Swordy became a full professor in 1997. Between 2000 and 2003, Swordy was Master of the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division and associate dean of the physical sciences.^[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."^[4] In 2007, he returned to the Enrico Fermi Institute as director.^[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.^[3][5]

Swordy married Josephine Ryan in 1984, with whom he raised three children.^[2][6]