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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