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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Roger D. Blandford FRS is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is [ [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/faculty/hepfaculty/blandford.html SLAC HEP Faculty: Roger Blandford ] ] a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently Pehong and Adele Chen director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford 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 the George W. Bush administration US space science policy [ [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-4/p10.html Exploring the Universe - Physics Today April 2005 ] ] .

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