Roger Blandford

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Roger David Blandford (born August 28, 1949 in Grantham , England ) is a British astronomer and astrophysicist .

Blandford received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1974 and was Professor at the California Institute of Technology from 1976 to 2003 . In 1980 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). Since 2003 he has been Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Stanford University and Director of the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology . His work focuses on cosmology , the astrophysics of black holes and gravitational lenses .

Together with Roman Znajek, he discovered the Blandford-Znajek process for generating energy from a black hole . The Blandford-Payne trial is also named after him.

Awards

1982 Helen B. Warner Prize
1989 appointment to the Royal Society
1993 appointment to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1998 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
1999 Eddington Medal
2005 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2013 Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society
2016 Crafoord Prize
2018 Karl G. Jansky Lecture
2020 Shaw Prize

Fonts

with RL Znajek: Electromagnetic extractions of energy from Kerr black holes, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc., Volume 179, 1977, pp. 433-456
with DG Payne: Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc., Volume 199, 1982, p. 883

Web links

Commons : Roger Blandford - collection of images, videos and audio files

Institute website with curriculum vitae

personal data
SURNAME	Blandford, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blandford, Roger David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grantham , England