Roger David Blandford is a British theoretical astrophysicist born August 28, 1949 in Grantham, England, best known for his work on black holes. He is known for the Blandford-Znajek process, which explains how rotating black holes can power relativistic jets, for a further mechanism of jet formation through hydromagnetic winds from accretion disks, and for the Blandford-Konigl conical jet model used to predict the radio properties of jets, and he also extended blast wave solutions to the ultra-relativistic limit important to supernova research. He received the 2020 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
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1949-08-28
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Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
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Roger David Blandford (born 1949) is a British theoretical astrophysicist
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Roger David Blandford (born 1949) is a British theoretical astrophysicist, best known for his work on black holes.
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