Tony Bell (physicist)

Tony Bell
Born Anthony Raymond Bell
Fields Physics
Institutions University of Oxford
Imperial College London
Marconi Electronic Systems
Central Laser Facility
Methodist Church
Alma mater University of Cambridge (PhD)
Thesis Young supernova remnants (1977)
Notable awards
Website
www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/bellt

Anthony Raymond Bell FRS[1] is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford[2] and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.[3]

Education

Bell was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in Radio astronomy in 1977 for research investigating supernova remnants.[4]

Career and research

Following his PhD, Bell worked on radar signal processing with Marconi Electronic Systems before moving to the Central Laser Facility as a laser-plasma theorist.[1] In 1985 he was appointed a lecturer at Imperial College London. In 2007, following two years with the Methodist Church, he was jointly appointed at the Clarendon Laboratory and the Central Laser Facility.[1]

Bell's research investigates plasma physics.[1][5][6] He wrote one of four independent papers proposing the theory of cosmic ray acceleration by shocks.[7][8][9][10] He showed how strong magnetic field is generated during particle acceleration and how it enables cosmic ray acceleration to high energy.[1] He initiated the theory of non-local transport for heat flow in inertial confinement fusion, explained the collimation of laser-produced energetic electrons by resistively generated magnetic field, and with John G. Kirk demonstrated the possibility of electron-positron pair production in ultra-high intensity laser-plasma interactions.[1]

Awards and honours

Bell was awarded the 2014 Hoyle Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics "for elucidating the origin and impact of cosmic rays and for his seminal contributions to electron energy transport in laboratory plasmas".[3] In 2016 he was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for "his development of the theory of the acceleration of charged particles in astrophysics, known as Diffusive Shock Acceleration".[11] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Anon (2017). "Professor Tony Bell FRS". Royal Society. Retrieved 2017-05-05. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  2. ↑ "Professor Tony Bell". physics.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-03-10.
  3. 1 2 "2014 Hoyle medal and prize". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  4. ↑ Bell, Anthony Raymond (1977). Young Supernova Remnants. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500382128.
  5. ↑ Tony Bell publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Schawinski, K.; Justham, S.; Wolf, C.; Podsiadlowski, P.; Sullivan, M.; Steenbrugge, K. C.; Bell, T.; Roser, H.-J.; Walker, E. S.; Astier, P.; Balam, D.; Balland, C.; Carlberg, R.; Conley, A.; Fouchez, D.; Guy, J.; Hardin, D.; Hook, I.; Howell, D. A.; Pain, R.; Perrett, K.; Pritchet, C.; Regnault, N.; Yi, S. K. (2008). "Supernova Shock Breakout from a Red Supergiant". Science. 321 (5886): 223–226. ISSN 0036-8075. doi:10.1126/science.1160456.
  7. ↑ Bell, Anthony R. (1978). "The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts - I". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 182 (2): 147–156. ISSN 0035-8711. doi:10.1093/mnras/182.2.147.
  8. ↑ Bell, Anthony R. (1978). "The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts - II". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 182 (3): 443–455. ISSN 0035-8711. doi:10.1093/mnras/182.3.443.
  9. ↑ Bell, Anthony Raymond (2004). "Turbulent amplification of magnetic field and diffusive shock acceleration of cosmic rays". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 353 (2): 550–558. ISSN 0035-8711. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08097.x.
  10. ↑ Bell, A. R.; Lucek, S. G. (2001). "Cosmic ray acceleration to very high energy through the non-linear amplification by cosmic rays of the seed magnetic field". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 321 (3): 433–438. ISSN 0035-8711. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04063.x.
  11. ↑ "Royal Astronomical Society medals go to IOP members". 2016 News. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
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