Honors
Awards
- Eddington Medal (1984)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1993)
- Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society, Division for Dynamical Astronomy (1991)
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1983)
- National Academy of Sciences, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (2000)
- Bruce Medal (1998)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (2000)
- Kavli Prize for Astrophysics (2008)
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Named after him
- Asteroid 18235 Lynden-Bell
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