List of Famous people with last name Mestel

Leon Mestel

First Name Leon

Last Name Mestel

Born on August 5, 1927

Died on September 15, 2017 (aged 90)

Born in Australia, Victoria

Leon Mestel was a British-Australian astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He was awarded both the Eddington Medal (1993) and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Following his retirement, he wrote several obituaries and biographical articles on physicists and astrophysicists.

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Jonathan Mestel

First Name Jonathan

Last Name Mestel

Born on March 13, 1957 (age 69)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Andrew Jonathan Mestel is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Imperial College London. He worked on magnetohydrodynamics and biological fluid dynamics. He obtained his PhD with the thesis "Magnetic Levitation of Liquid Metals" at University of Cambridge.

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