Professor
Michael Lester Norman
University of California, San Diego
Astrophysicist; Computer scientist; Educator; Research institution staff member
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth Sciences
Elected
2005
Leader in computational astrophysics and cosmology. Carried out hydrodynamical supercomputer simulation of the structure and dynamics of extragalactic radio jets, the Lyman alpha forest, thermal instabilities in the interstellar medium, and the formation of the first stars in the universe. Developed and disseminated the ZEUS family of simulation codes.
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