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Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (5 April 1935 – 6 February 2018) was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars.
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (Dover (Inglaterra), 5 de abril de 1935 - 5 de fevereiro de 2018 [1]) foi um astrofísico inglês. Honrarias. Prêmios. Medalha Karl Schwarzschild 1983; Medalha Eddington 1984; Prêmio Brouwer 1991; Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society 1993; Medalha Bruce 1998; Prêmio John J. Carty 2000 [2]
28 de fev. de 2018 · Donald Lynden-Bell was a towering, stimulating, analytical theorist of the sort that is increasingly rare in these days of high-performance computers.
- Roger Davies
- 2018
22 de jul. de 2020 · Donald Lynden-Bell's many contributions to astrophysics encompass general relativity, galactic dynamics, telescope design and observational astronomy. In the 1960s, his papers on stellar dynamics led to fundamental insights into the equilibria of elliptical galaxies, the growth of spiral patterns in disc galaxies and the stability of ...
- Neil Wyn Evans
- 2020
14 de fev. de 2018 · Donald Lynden-Bell, a British theoretical astrophysicist who pioneered research into cosmic quirks like quasars and black holes and with colleagues contradicted the prevailing premise that the...
16 de mar. de 2018 · Donald Lynden-Bell. Image courtesy of Amanda Smith and the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Open in viewer. Donald’s doctoral supervisor was Leon Mestel, a world expert on cosmic magnetism.
Donald Lynden-Bell (1935-2018) studied astronomy at the University of Cambridge in the UK, to which, after periods at the California Institute of Technology and the Royal Greenwich Observatory, he returned in 1972 to become Professor of Astrophysics and the first Director of the Institute of Astronomy.
