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Awardee

Roger Blandford, Ph.D.

Director, Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources

Affiliations
  • Luke Blossom Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
  • Professor of Physics, Stanford University
  • Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory

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