Answer the following question: Facts: - prizes: commander of the royal society of the order of the british empire fellow - thesis url: http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsinfo?bibid=39508 - caption: malcolm longair - birth name: malcolm sim longair - thesis year: 1967 - work institutions: university of cambridge university of edinburgh - field: natural philosophy - doctoral advisor: martin ryle - birth date: 18 may 1941 - thesis title: the evolution of radio galaxies - name: malcolm longair - birth place: dundee , scotland - alma mater: university of cambridge Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of malcolm longair .
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malcolm sim longair , cbe , frs -lrb- 18 may 1941 -rrb- is a british physicist .he was the jacksonian professor of natural philosophy in the cavendish laboratory at the university of cambridge , from 1991 to 2008 .