James Binney

Jeffrey James Binney ( born April 12, 1950 in London ) is a British theoretical physicist and astrophysicist.

Binney studied at Cambridge University (Bachelor 1971) and from 1971 at the University of Oxford ( Christ Church College ), where he received his doctorate in 1975 with Dennis Sciama in Astrophysics ( On the formation of galaxies ). As a post - graduate student he was at Oxford and Princeton University at Magdalene College. From 1981 he was a lecturer, tutor and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 1991 he was Reader in Theoretical Physics and 1996 Professor of Physics.

Binney deals inter alia with dynamics and modeling of galaxies. Besides astrophysics, he deals with statistical physics.

In 1986 he was awarded the Maxwell Medal, 2003 Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society, 2010, the Dirac Medal ( IOP) and 2013 Eddington Medal. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society in 2002.

Writings

• With Dimitri Mihalas Galactic Astronomy, Freeman 1981, 2nd edition by Michael Merrifield, Princeton University Press 1998
• With Scott Tremaine Galactic Dynamics, Princeton University Press, 1988, 2nd edition 2008
• With NJ Dowrick, AJ Fisher, MEJ Newman: The theory of critical phenomena, Oxford University Press, 1992.