Peter Mészáros

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Peter István Mészáros (born July 15, 1943 in Budapest ) is an American astrophysicist . He is a professor at Pennsylvania State University .

Meszaros graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with a master's degree in 1965 and received his doctorate in 1972 from the University of California, Berkeley . He was a post-doctoral student at Princeton University and from 1973 to 1975 at the University of Cambridge . From 1975 to 1983 he was a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching. In 1983 he became Associate Professor and 1987 Professor at Pennsylvania State University, where he has been Distinguished Professor since 2002 and Eberly Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Since 1994 he has been head of the faculty for astronomy and astrophysics.

He was 1980-81 visiting scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA , in 1995 and 1999 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, 1999 at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1981, 1982, 1990) and in Cambridge (1991, 2000).

He is primarily a theorist and deals with the investigation of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) also under the aspect of the gravitational waves (participation in gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO ) and neutrinos (participation in the IceCube experiment in Antarctica) arising from the Interaction of protons with the gamma rays arise. He also studies cosmological aspects of GRB (such as distance determination, GRB in the early universe), acceleration mechanisms for cosmic rays of high energy.

With Martin Rees, he developed the Relativistic Fireball Shock Model for GRB and its conversion mechanism of energy from a collapse or the merging of neutron stars into gamma rays in the early 1990s .

He is a US citizen. Meszaros is a fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1999/2000 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 2000 he received the Bruno Rossi Prize with Martin Rees and Bohdan Paczyński . In 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Meszaros, Rees Relativistic fire balls-energy conversion and time scales , Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc., Vol. 258, 1992, pp. 41P-43P, Understanding outflow models for cosmological gamma ray bursts , The Astrophys. J., Volume 430, 1994, L93-L95
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SURNAME Mészáros, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mészáros, Peter I .; Mészáros, Péter István (full name); Meszaros, Peter Istvan; Meszaros, Peter I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest