Tony Bell (physicist)

Anthony Raymond Bell, known as Tony Bell, is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He was awarded the 2014 Hoyle Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics "for elucidating the origin and impact of cosmic rays and for his seminal contributions to electron energy transport in laboratory plasmas". In 2016 he was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for "his development of the theory of the acceleration of charged particles in astrophysics, known as Diffusive Shock Acceleration".