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][better source needed]}

Awards

• 2000 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy for his work.