Donald Lynden-Bell
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 7 years ago |
| Date of birth | April 5,1935 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Dover |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | February 6,2018 |
| Died | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | Ruth Lynden-Bell |
| Books | Dover, United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Awards | John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| Eddington Medal | |
| Bruce Medal | |
| Karl Schwarzschild Medal | |
| Kavli Prize in Astrophysics | |
| Doctor student | Ofer Lahav |
| Thesi | Stellar and galactic dynamics |
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| ID | 2876873 |
Donald Lynden-Bell Life story
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.