Eric F. Bell

Eric F. Bell
Alma materGlasgow University (BSc)
Durham University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsObservational astronomy
ThesisExploring the star formation histories of galaxies (1999)
Websitesites.lsa.umich.edu/ericbell/

Eric Findlay Bell is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan.

Formerly a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Bell was a 2007 awardee of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize from the German Research Foundation for his work on galaxy formation.

He was part of the team that discovered Andromeda XXXV, a satellite galaxy of Andromeda, in 2025.