Roger Blandford’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British astronomer
Is Astronomer 
Physicist 
Scientist 
Astrophysicist 
Professor 
Educator 
Researcher 
Academic 
From United Kingdom 
United States of America 
Type Academia 
Education 
Science 
Gender male
Birth 28 August 1949, Grantham, United Kingdom
Age: 70 years
Star sign Virgo
Education
Magdalene College
Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship  
Fellow of the Royal Society  
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy 1982
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 2013
Eddington Medal 1999
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics 1998
Fellow of the American Physical Society  
Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2016
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences  

Roger David Blandford (born 1949), FRS FRAS, is a British theoretical astrophysicist, best known for his work on black holes.

Early life

Blandford was born in Grantham, England and grew up in Birmingham.

Career

Blandford 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.

He is also the chair of Astro2010, the decadal survey that helps define and recommend funding priorities for U.S. astronomy research in the upcoming decade. The Astro2010 report was released August 13, 2010.

Positions

Blandford is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, Professor of Physics at Stanford University and at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory. He was the Pehong and Adele Chen Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology from 2003 to 2013.

Awards

  • Crafoord Prize (2016)
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2013)
  • Humboldt Prize (2011)
  • Eddington Medal (1999)
  • Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1998)
  • Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (1982)
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