Simon White
Helen B. Warner Prize (1986)
Heineman Prize (2005)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2006)
Professor Simon David Manton White, FRS (born 30 September 1951, in Ashford, Kent) is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
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