Alexander Boksenberg

Alexander Boksenberg CBE Fellow of the [Royal Society|FRS] is a British scientist who was the Director of the Royal [Greenwich Observatory] from 1981–1995. In the early 1980s he developed the image [photon counting system], an electronic detector for faint astronomical sources. His astronomical research focused on active galactic nuclei.
Boksenberg won the 1998 Jackson-Gwilt Medal from the Royal [Astronomical Society] and the 1999 Hughes Medal from the Royal Society. The minor planet 3205 Boksenberg is named after him.
He won the Richard [Glazebrook Medal and Prize] in 2000.