Roger Blandford

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Roger Blandford
Residence	United States
Nationality	British
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Stanford University Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Alma mater	Magdalene College, Cambridge St John's College, Cambridge California Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study
Doctoral advisor	Martin Rees
Doctoral students	Lars Hernquist Chris Kochanek
Notable awards	Helen B. Warner Prize (1982) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1988) Eddington Medal (1999)

Roger Blandford FRS is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is^[1] a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is currently Pehong and Adele Chen director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.

He is famous in the astrophysical community for the Blandford-Znajek Process which is a model for the extraction of energy from a black hole. In April 2005 he wrote a letter to the astronomy community showing his concern about the George W. Bush administration US space science policy^[2].