List of Famous people with last name Lynden-bell

Donald Lynden-Bell

First Name Donald
Last Name Lynden-Bell
Born on April 5, 1935
Died on February 6, 2018 (aged 82)

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 (1985–87) 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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