Leon Mestel
Leon Mestel | |
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| Born | 5 August 1927 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 15 September 2017 (aged 90) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1948, PhD 1952) |
| Awards | Eddington Medal (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Some problems of stellar structure (1952) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fred Hoyle |
| Doctoral students | Donald Lynden-Bell, Richard Bruce Paris |
Leon Mestel (5 August 1927 – 15 September 2017) was a British-Australian astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He was awarded both the Eddington Medal (1993) and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (for Astronomy, 2002). Following his retirement, he wrote several obituaries and biographical articles on physicists and astrophysicists.