Alexander Boksenberg#
| Membership Number: | 476 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/Alexander.Boksenberg |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1996-1999 Honorary Professor of Experimental Astronomy in the University of Cambridge
- 1981-1996 Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
- 1981-1989 Professor of Astronomy, University of Sussex
- 1978-1981 Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Observational astronomy
- Sky-scanning photometry
- Optical astronomy
Honours and Awards
- 1996 Commander of the British Empire
- 1999 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Asteroid Namesake 3205 Boksenberg
