| LC control no. | n 81066822 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lynden-Bell, D. |
| Variant(s) | Bell, D. Lynden- Lynden-Bell, Donald |
| Birth date | 1935-04-05 |
| Death date | 2018-02-06 |
| Place of birth | Kent (England) |
| Field of activity | Astrophysics |
| Affiliation | Royal Greenwich Observatory University of Sussex University of Cambridge. Observatory University of Cambridge. Institute of Astronomy |
| Profession or occupation | Astrophysicists |
| Found in | Advanced Course in Astrophysics, 3d, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 1973. Dynamical structure and evolution of stellar systems, 1973. Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 28, 2018 (Donald Lynden-Bell, astrophysicist, born 5 April 1935, at Dover Castle, Kent, a military barracks at the time; died 6 February 2018; in 1964 Donald decided to move to the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux, East Sussex; also had a joint appointment with the nascent Astronomy Centre at the Univ. of Sussex; in 1971 Donald decided to leave Hertsmonceux and applied for the vacant chair of astrophysics at Cambridge; found himself director of the Cambridge Observatory but within a year he was having to negotiate the merger of the observatory and the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, to form the new Institute of Astronomy; from 1972 to 1995 Donald and Martin Rees alternated five-year spells as director of the institute) LC database, Feb. 28, 2018 (access point: Lynden-Bell, D.; usage: D. Lynden-Bell) |
| Associated language | eng |
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