James M. Stone (astrophysicist)
James M. Stone (born before 1984) is an American astrophysicist.
Stone studied physics at Queen's University (Kingston) with a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a master's degree in 1986, and received his PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 . He taught at the University of Maryland from 1992 , became professor at Cambridge University in 2002 and at Princeton University in 2003 . There he is Associate Director of the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE).
He studied hydro- and gas-dynamic problems in astrophysics, for example accretion disks around black holes, jets, merging galaxy clusters or interstellar shock waves.
In 2011 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for his pioneering work in numerical magnetohydrodynamics, including the development and dissemination of widely used codes and the application of these codes to important problems in astrophysics (laudation). For 2018 he was awarded the Brouwer Award , in 2020 Stone was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
- Computational Astrophysics , Scholarpedia 2007
- with Ouyet, Pudritz: Episodic jets from black holes and protostars, Nature, Volume 385, 1997, pp. 409-414
- with James Pringle: Magnetohydrodynamical non-radiative accretion flows in two dimensions, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., Vol. 322, 2001, pp. 461-472
- with others: Athena: A New Code for Astrophysical MHD, Arxiv 2008
- Instabilities in accretion disks, in: Kanaris Tsinganos, Tom Ray, Matthias Stute (Eds.), Protostellar Jets in Context, Springer 2009
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Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Stone, James M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1984 |