Roger Blandford
Faculty Type:
Active Faculty
Title:
Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
Additional Titles:
Professor of Physics at Stanford University and at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Address:
KIPAC
452 Lomita Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305-4085
Phone Number:
650-723-4233
Fax Number:
650-725-4096
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Research Interests
Research interests include: cosmology; black hole astrophysics, gravitational lensing; galaxies; cosmic rays; neutron stars; white dwarfs.
Career History
- B.A., 1970, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
- M.A.,1974, Univ. of Cambridge
- Ph.D., 1974, Magdalene College, Cambridge
- Research Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1973-1976
- Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1976-1979
- Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1979-1989
- Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1989-2003
- Executive Officer for Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1992-1995
- Pehong and Adele Chen Director, Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, 2003-2013
- Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2003-present
- Professor of Physics, Stanford, 2003-present
HONORS/AWARDS:
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1974-1975 and 1998
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1980-1984
- Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1982
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-1990
- Fellow of Royal Society, 1989
- Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993
- Dannie Heineman Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1998
- Member, American Astronomical Society.
- Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 1999
- Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2005
- Humboldt Research Award, Humboldt Foundation, 2011
- Blaauw Professor, Groningen, 2012
- Miller Professor, UC Berkeley, 2013-14
- Simons Fellowship, 2013-14
- Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, 2013
- Greenstein Lecturer, Caltech, 2013
- Kingsley Visitor, Caltech, 2014
- Physics Memorial Lecturer, UCSD, 2014