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Apr 05, 1935 Dover, England, United Kingdom Died on 06 Feb 2018 (aged 82)
English astrophysicist
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About Donald Lynden Bell
- 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 supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars.
- Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985–87) and received numerous awards for his work, including the inaugural Kavli Prize for Astrophysics.
- He worked at the University of Cambridge for his entire career, where he was the first director of its Institute of Astronomy.
