James Binney
1950
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: King's College School, University of Oxford
occupation: physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, researcher
award received: Fellow of the Royal Society, Eddington Medal, IOP Dirac Medal, Occhialini Prize, Maxwell Medal and Prize, Fellow of the Institute of Physics
official website: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JamesBinney
James Jeffrey Binney, FRS, FInstP (born 12 April 1950) is a British astrophysicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Oxford and former head of the Sub-Department of Theoretical Physics as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Merton College. Binney is known principally for his work in theoretical galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, though he has made a number of contributions to areas outside of astrophysics as well. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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