- Roger Blandford
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name = Roger D. Blandford
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field =Astronomy
work_institution =Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford University Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
alma_mater =Magdalene College, Cambridge St John's College, Cambridge California Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study
doctoral_advisor =Martin Rees
doctoral_students =Lars Hernquist Chris Kochanek
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prizes =Helen B. Warner Prize (1982)Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1988)Eddington Medal (1999)
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footnotes =Roger D. Blandford FRS is an
astronomer andastrophysicist . He is [ [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/faculty/hepfaculty/blandford.html SLAC HEP Faculty: Roger Blandford ] ] aFellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is currently Pehong and Adele Chen director of theKavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Professor at theStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences atStanford University .He is famous in the astrophysical community for the
Blandford-Znajek Process which is a model for the extraction of energy from a black hole. In April 2005 he wrote a letter to the astronomy community showing his concern about theGeorge W. Bush administration US space science policy [ [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-4/p10.html Exploring the Universe - Physics Today April 2005 ] ] .References
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