David L. Lambert

David L. Lambert is a British-American Astronomer, who does research on stellar atmospheres, the chemical composition of stars, and the chemical evolution of the universe.

Born in England, Lambert received his PhD in 1965 from the University of Oxford. In 1967 he became an immigrant to the USA to work at the California Institute of Technology, then in 1969 at the University of Texas at Austin, where in 1974 he became a professor. Beginning in 2003 he is the director of the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas.

David L. Lambert is a member of the International Astronomical Union.

Awards

• 1987: Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
• 2007: Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

External links

• Biographical information from mcdonaldobservatory.org