James M. Bardeen

James M. Bardeen (1980)

James Maxwell Bardeen (born May 9, 1939 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American theoretical astrophysicist .

Bardeen graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and received his doctorate in physics from Caltech under Richard Feynman in 1965 . He then conducted research at Caltech and the University of California, Berkeley , before becoming an assistant professor and later associate professor of astronomy at the University of Washington in 1966 . In 1974 he became associate professor and later professor of physics at Yale University and in 1976 professor at the University of Washington.

He deals with the astrophysics of black holes and accretion disks, the dynamics of spiral galaxies, development of large structures in cosmology in cosmological perturbation theory (1980) and numerical relativity. From 1968 to 1972 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1977 he was a Fairchild Fellow at Caltech. He became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1989 and of the American Physical Society in 1996 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012 .

James Bardeen has been married since 1968 and has two sons.

Fonts

• with Brandon Carter , Stephen Hawking : The four laws of black hole mechanics , Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 31, 1973, pp. 161-170.
• Gauge-invariant cosmological perturbations , Phys. Rev. D, Volume 22, 1980, pp. 1882-1905.
• with JR Bond, Nick Kaiser, AS Szalay: The Statistics of Peaks of Gaussian Random Fields , Astroph. J., Volume 304, 1986, pp. 15-61

Web links

• James Maxwell Bardeen. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Elected Fellows: Listing of Fellows who are current members. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed June 16, 2019 .