| Citation | Professor Binney showed that Zeldovich's pancake model of galaxy formation would lead to elliptical galaxies that were not flattened by rotation, a prediction subsequently confirmed by observation. He has been a distinguished developer of new computer-based methods for studying the internal dynamics of galaxies. His seminal work with Cowie on X-ray cooling flows laid the basis of later work from which new insights into galaxy formation developed. Binney and Tremaine wrote the standard reference work on Galactic Dynamics. He has used 'Hipparcos' results to determine a more accurate model of the Galaxy |