Kirpal Nandra

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]

Awards

2000 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for his work.

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[1] ttp://www.mpe.mpg.de/Highlights/PR20100610/text.html

[2] ttp://astro.ic.ac.uk/knandra/home

[3] ttps://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=active&q=%22K+Nandra%22&btnG=Search

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