James Binney
James Jeffrey Binney (born April 12, 1950 in London ) is a British theoretical physicist and astrophysicist.
Binney studied at Cambridge University (Bachelor 1971) and from 1971 at Oxford University (Christ Church College), where he received his doctorate in astrophysics in 1975 under Dennis Sciama ( On the formation of galaxies ). He was a post-doctoral student at Magdalene College, Oxford and Princeton University . From 1981 he was a lecturer, tutor and fellow at Merton College, Oxford. In 1991 he became a reader in theoretical physics and in 1996 professor of physics.
Binney deals, among other things, with the dynamics and modeling of galaxies. In addition to astrophysics, he deals with statistical physics.
In 1986 he received the Maxwell Medal , in 2003 the Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society , in 2010 the Dirac Medal (IOP) and in 2013 the Eddington Medal . In 2002 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society .
Fonts
- with Dimitri Mihalas Galactic Astronomy , Freeman 1981, 2nd edition with Michael Merrifield, Princeton University Press 1998
- with Scott Tremaine Galactic Dynamics , Princeton University Press 1988, 2nd edition 2008
- with NJ Dowrick, AJ Fisher, MEJ Newman: The theory of critical phenomena , Oxford University Press, 1992.
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| SURNAME | Binney, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Binney, James Jeffrey (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theoretical physicist and astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |