Bruce Elmegreen
Bruce Gordon Elmegreen (born February 24, 1950 in Milwaukee ) is an American astronomer .
Elmegreen graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and received his PhD in astrophysics from Princeton University in 1975 with Lyman Spitzer . From 1975 to 1978 he was a junior fellow at Harvard and in 1981 at the University of Sussex and visiting professor at Berkeley. From 1984 he conducted research at IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center .
He deals with interstellar gas with a focus on star formation in gas nebulae and the large-scale structure of spiral galaxies . Elmegreen demonstrated the existence of standing spiral waves in galaxies in model simulations .
In 2001 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics . He has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2012 .
Elmegreen has been married to the astronomer Debra Elmegreen (* 1952) since 1976 , professor at Vassar College .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Bruce Elmegreen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Elmegreen, Bruce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Elmegreen, Bruce Gordon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee |