Donald Lynden-Bell (1935–2018)
An interview with astronomer Donald Lynden-Bell, who died in February 2018, is presented. His great-grandfather knew the famous astronomer John Herschel. His father, an army Colonel, inherited a telescope and introduced Donald to the wonders of the sky. At his school, Marlborough College, Donald was...
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| Published in: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 115; no. 14; pp. 3510 - 3511 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
03-04-2018
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| Summary: | An interview with astronomer Donald Lynden-Bell, who died in February 2018, is presented. His great-grandfather knew the famous astronomer John Herschel. His father, an army Colonel, inherited a telescope and introduced Donald to the wonders of the sky. At his school, Marlborough College, Donald was exceedingly well taught. He came up to Clare College to read mathematics. In his second year, he was supervised by the great physicist Abdus Salam, who advised him to divert for a year to study physics, which Donald did before returning to mathematics for his fourth year. He thereby had a superb launching-pad for research. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Author contributions: M.J.R. wrote the paper. |
| ISSN: | 0027-8424 1091-6490 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1803355115 |