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- Works
- 5
Top works
- On the thermal generation of toroidal magnetic fields in rotating stars
- Astronomy - a mirror to physics
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Stellar magnetism
- Stellar Magnetism
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· 2000 · cited 12,070x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,252x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leon
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Melbourne
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Child
- Jonathan Mestel
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- Leiden University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Eddington Medal
- Doctoral advisor
- Fred Hoyle
- Student of
- Thomas George Cowling
- Field of work
- magnetohydrodynamics
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- date of birth
- 1927-08-05
- member of
- Royal Society
- date of death
- 2017-09-15
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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