Roger Blandford, 1949 -

SLAC Professor of Physics; Stanford University Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences

King Edward's School, Birmingham 1960-1967
Magdalene College, Cambridge University W.B.R. King Scholarship 1967-1970
Natural Science Tripos (Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry,Crystalline State)
B.A. (First Class Honours) in Theoretical Physics 1970
Research Student, Institute of Astronomy 1970-1973
M.A. Cambridge University 1974
Ph.D. Cambridge University 1974
Charles Kingsley Bye Fellowship, Magdalene College 1972-1973
Research Fellowship, St. John's College, Cambridge 1973-1976
California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
- Assistant Professor 1976-1979
- Professor 1979-1989
- Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics 1989-2004
- Executive Officer for Astronomy 1992-1995
Pehong and Adele Chen Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University 2003-2013
Pehong and Adele Chen Professor of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology 2003-2005
Professor at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 2003-
Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University 2005-
KIPAC Division Head, PPA Directorate, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 2005-2013
Sc.D. University of Chicago 2007
Chair, National Academy decadal survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astro2010 2008-

Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society 1974
Fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society 1975
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1980-1984
Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society 1982
Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-1989
Dannie Heineman Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1998
Eddington Medal, Royal Astronomical Society 1999
Member, American Astronomical Society, Councilor 1999-2002
High Energy Astrophysics Division, Executive Committee 1982-1984, Vice Chair 2002-2004, Chair 2004-2006
Fellow of Royal Society (1989), Council Correspondent, West USA, 1991-
Director, American Friends Royal Society 2003-
Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1993
Member National Academy of Sciences 2005, Astronomy Section Chair 2019-
Medal, Institut d'Astrophysique, de Paris 2007
Fellow of American Physical Society 2010
Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society 2013
Chair, 26th Solvay Conference, "Astrophysics and Cosmology" 2014
Crafoord Prize in Astronomy 2016
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018
American Astronomical Society Legacy Fellow 2020, Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2020

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