Kirpal Nandra
British physicist
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Kirpal "Paul" Nandra (born 1966) is a British physicist and the current director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.[2]
Born11 September 1911
North Shields, England[1]
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He was Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London.[3]
He is noted as a member of the X-ray group and studies the astrophysics of extreme environments, specifically those close to black holes in active galactic nuclei. He has written or co-written numerous papers on this topic.[4][better source needed]
Early life
Nandra was born in North Shields in the northeast of England. His parents were biochemists. Nandra graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of Leicester.[5]
Awards
- 2000 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for his work.
