Alexander Boksenberg
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Alexander (Alec) Boksenberg CBE FRS (born 18 March 1936)[1] is a British scientist who was the Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1981–1995. In the early 1980s he developed the image photon counting system, an electronic detector for faint astronomical sources.[2] His astronomical research focused on active galactic nuclei.
Boksenberg won the 1998 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society[3] and the 1999 Hughes Medal from the Royal Society.[4] The minor planet 3205 Boksenberg is named after him.[5]
He won the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize in 2000.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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