Donald Lynden-Bell
✓ Source-basedfallingEnglish astrophysicist (1935-2018)
Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS 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.
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Marina RatnerAlso won John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
Alexei StarobinskiAlso won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics
Bohdan PaczyńskiAlso won Karl Schwarzschild Medal
Frank ShuAlso won Bruce Medal
Otto HeckmannAlso won Bruce Medal
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Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS 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. Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985-1987) and received numerous awards for his work, including the inaugural Kavli Prize for Astrophysics. He worked at the University of Cambridge for his entire career, where he was the first director of its Institute of Astronomy.
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