Roger Blandford
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
- Institute website with curriculum vitae
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SURNAME | Blandford, Roger |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blandford, Roger David |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British astrophysicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Grantham , England |