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    Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (5 April 1935 – 6 February 2018) was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain...
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  • Lynden-Bell may refer to: Arthur Lynden-Bell (1867–1943), British Army officer Donald Lynden-Bell (1935–2018), British astrophysicist Ruth Lynden-Bell...
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  • Donald Bell (bass-baritone) (born 1934), Canadian bass-baritone Donald Bell (writer) (1937–2003), Canadian journalist and writer Donald Lynden-Bell (1935–2018)...
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  • Ruth Marion Lynden-Bell, FRS (born 7 December 1937) is a British chemist, emeritus professor of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Cambridge...
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    Prize) in 1988. The subject of his doctoral thesis, supervised by Donald Lynden-Bell, FRS, was "Gravity, Galaxies and the 'Great Attractor' Survey". Somak...
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    3C 273 and deduce that it is a double source. 1962 — Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell, and Allan Sandage theorize galaxy formation by a single (relatively)...
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    Burbidge (1948–1951) Antony Hewish (1957–1961) Donald Lynden-Bell (1967–1969) Carole Jordan (1968–1973) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1973–1976) "The Observatory Magazine:...
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    require a mass of around 108 M☉ to match the output of these objects. Donald Lynden-Bell noted in 1969 that the infalling gas would form a flat disk that spirals...
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  • region of stability in the parameter space. It was later argued by Donald Lynden-Bell that a similar phenomenon was occurring in galactic dynamics, where...
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    effects are caused by the oceans on Earth or the rings of Saturn. Donald Lynden-Bell, a British theoretical astrophysicist, constructed the equation for...
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  • they were David Burstein, Roger Davies, Alan Dressler, Sandra Faber, Donald Lynden-Bell, Roberto Terlevich, and Gary A. Wegner This disambiguation page lists...
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  • directed by Alison E. Rose that follows four British astronomers—Donald Lynden-Bell, Roger Griffin, Neville Woolf and Wallace Sargent—as they retrace...
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    Donald Lynden-Bell characterized Ambartsumian as a "broad-shouldered thickset man of medium height, quick intellect and strong character." Lynden-Bell...
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  • Westhuizen, South African rugby union footballer (b. 1971) 2018 – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935) 2019 – Manfred Eigen, German Nobel...
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  • of years. This stellar stream was originally proposed in 1995 by Donald Lynden-Bell after analyzing the distribution of globular clusters in the Milky...
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  • Filippenko. He was director of the Palomar Observatory from 1997 to 2000. Donald Lynden-Bell, Roger Griffin, Neville Woolf, and Wal Sargent were in the film Star...
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    astronomers of his time. He is best known for a seminal 1962 paper with Donald Lynden-Bell and Allan Sandage which suggested for the first time that the Milky...
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    of Time magazine in March 1966. He was later a co-recipient, with Donald Lynden-Bell, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for Astrophysics in 2008. He lectured...
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  • over three centuries. Since 1997, the theorem has been studied by Donald Lynden-Bell and collaborators. Its first exact extension came in 2000 with the...
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    of them exactly predicts the results of observation. Olin Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell, and Allan Sandage in 1962, proposed a theory that disk galaxies form...
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  • the paper now referred to as ELS after the authors Olin J. Eggen, Donald Lynden-Bell and Sandage, first describing the collapse of a proto-galactic gas...
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  • Richard Doughty, 57, English cricketer (Gloucestershire). 6 February Donald Lynden-Bell, 82, English astrophysicist. Michael White, 58, British author and...
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  • inventor and engineer Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist David...
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  • in papers by Edwin Salpeter and Yakov Zeldovich in 1964. In 1969 Donald Lynden-Bell proposed that nearby galaxies contain supermassive black holes at...
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  • 1965–) Willem Luyten (Dutch East Indies, Netherlands, 1899–1994) Donald Lynden-Bell (United Kingdom, 1935–2018) Andrew Lyne (UK, 1942–) Bernard Lyot (France...
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  • resignation from Cambridge in September 1971 over the way he thought Donald Lynden-Bell was chosen to replace retiring professor Roderick Oliver Redman behind...
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    their seminal contributions to understanding the nature of quasars" Donald Lynden-Bell Cambridge University 2010 Jerry E. Nelson Lick Observatory, University...
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  • E. Peebles 1996 – Albert E. Whitford 1997 – Eugene Parker 1998 – Donald Lynden-Bell 1999 – Geoffrey R. Burbidge 2000 – Rashid A. Sunyaev 2001 – Hans A...
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  • actor 1935 – Peter Grant, English talent manager (d. 1995) 1935 – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 2018) 1935 – Frank Schepke...
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    R.O. Redman (1947–1971) Donald Lynden-Bell (1971–1997) George Efstathiou (1997–2022) Hiranya Peiris (2023-) Donald Lynden-Bell (1997–2001) – at the Institute...
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