Anthony Raymond Bell

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Tony Bell

Anthony Raymond "Tony" Bell is a British astro and plasma physicist. He is a professor at Oxford University .

Life

Bell received his PhD in radio astronomy from Cambridge University in 1977 (subject: Young supernova remnants ). He then worked as a physicist at GEC-Marconi, among other things on signal processing for radar and laser-plasma interaction. In 1985 he became a Lecturer at Imperial College London and in 2007 he became Professor at Oxford University (Clarendon Laboratory) and is also at the Central Laser Facility of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory . He is a Fellow at Somerville College .

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He had a leading role in the development of the standard model about the origin of cosmic rays and the acceleration mechanisms of cosmic rays through shock waves ( English diffusive shock acceleration ) through magnetic mirror effects. In 2004 he also showed how magnetic fields can be strengthened, which was used to explain ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

He made significant contributions to the theory of electron transport in laser-induced plasmas such as inertial fusion. He initiated the non-local theory of electron transport in laser-plasma interaction and showed how self-induced magnetic fields can focus high-energy electron beams into the fusion fuel. With John G. Kirk he showed the possibility of electron-positron pair generation in intensive laser-plasma interactions, i.e. quantum electrodynamic effects.

Awards and memberships

In 2014 he received the Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize , in 2016 the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and in 2018 the Hannes Alfvén Prize . In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Before that he was with the Methodists for two years
  2. ↑ Bell, The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts, Part 1, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 182, 1978, pp. 147-156, Part 2, pp. 443-455
  3. ↑ Bell, Turbulent amplification of magnetic field and diffusive shock acceleration of cosmic rays, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 353, 2004, pp. 550-558.
  4. ↑ Bell, S. Lucek: Cosmic ray acceleration to very high energy through the non-linear amplification by cosmic rays of the seed magnetic field, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 321, 2001, pp. 433-438.
  5. ↑ Hannes Alfven Prize 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Anthony Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bell, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British astrophysicist and plasma physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century