Richard McCray
Richard A. McCray (born November 24, 1937 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist .
McCray graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1967 . As a post-doctoral student he was at Caltech and from 1968 Assistant Professor at the Harvard College Observatory . From 1971 he was at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics at the University of Colorado in Boulder , where he is George Gamow Distinguished Professor in Astrophysics.
He was a visiting scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA (1983) at Peking University and Nanjing University (1987), at the Space Telescope Science Institute (1988), Columbia University (1990) and the University of Berkeley (1997).
McCray is concerned with the theory of the dynamics of interstellar gas, the theory of cosmic X-ray sources and especially the formation of interstellar bubbles by star winds and super- bubbles , which are formed by supernova explosions in the gas disks of galaxies, and specifically with the mechanism of the conversion of X-ray emissions into optical ones and UV range for neutron stars and black holes. He studied and modeled the evolution of the spectrum of SN 1987A and made some correct predictions about events on the ring system of SN 1987A . In addition to theoretical calculations and computer simulations, he uses the Hubble Space Telescope or the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
In 1990 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics . In 1975 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1989).
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McCray, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McCray, Richard A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |