Saul Teukolsky
Saul Arno Teukolsky (born August 2, 1947 in Johannesburg ) is a South African - American physicist who deals with astrophysics .
Career
Teukolsky studied at the Witwatersrand University (Bachelor 1970) and received his PhD in 1973 at Caltech with Kip Thorne . He was then a Richard Chace Tolman Research Fellow at Caltech. From 1974 he was Assistant Professor, 1977 Associate Professor and from 1983 Professor at Cornell University , from 1999 as Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics . From 2007 he was chairman of the physics faculty there.
Teukolsky dealt with numerical general relativity on supercomputers, where he was one of the pioneers. Today his group is working on corresponding calculations to identify signals for gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO .
He is co-author of a well-known book on algorithms in scientific computing ( Numerical Recipes ). The books appear in parallel with codes for different programming languages (Numerical Recipes in C, C ++, Fortran, Pascal and also a volume on parallel codes in Fortran 90)
1975 received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ). In 1994 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996 and of the National Academy of Sciences since 2003 .
Fonts
- Alan Lightman, William H. Press , Teukolsky: Problem book in relativity and gravitation . Princeton University Press, 1975.
- William H. Press, Teukolsky, William Vetterling, Brian Flannery: Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing . Cambridge University Press, 2007 (3rd edition).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Teukolsky, Saul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teukolsky, Saul A .; Teukolsky, Saul Arno (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg |