Presenter Full Name
:
Dr. Roger Blandford
Award Recipient
:
Crafoord Prize
Institution
:
Stanford University
Year & Semester
:
2005 Spring
Presentation Date
:
February 15, 2005
Dr. Roger Blandford of Stanford University will describe how physicists observe Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with energies as great as those of a well-struck tennis ball and how astrophysicists are trying to explain how they are accelerated.