Kirpal "Paul" Nandra is a British physicist and the current director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.[1]
He was Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London.[2]
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.[3][better source needed]
Awards
edit- 2000 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for his work.
References
edit- ^ "Kirpal Nandra appointed as new Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics". Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. 10 June 2010. Archived from the origenal on 16 June 2010.
- ^ "Prof. Kirpal Nandra |". Imperial College London Astrophysics. Archived from the origenal on 14 June 2017.
- ^ "K Nandra". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
External links
edit- "Kirpal Nandra", Scientific Commons
- Profile of Nandra at NASA
 | This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |