Stanford E. Woosley
Stanford E. "Stan" Woosley (born December 8, 1944 in Texarkana , Texas ) is an American theoretical astrophysicist .
Woosley studied at Rice University (Bachelor 1966) and received his doctorate there in 1971 under Don D. Clayton on nuclear astrophysics ( Nucleosynthesis during advanced burning states of stars ). As a post-doc he was at the Kellogg Laboratory at Caltech with William Alfred Fowler , with whom he continued to work frequently. From 1975 he was Assistant Professor , from 1978 Associate Professor and from 1983 Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). From 1983 to 1987, 1989 to 1991 and 1998 to 2003 he was head of the faculty for astronomy and astrophysics. From 1996 to 1998 he was Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching . Since 1974 he has been a consultant at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .
From the 1970s onwards, with Fowler, he calculated the standard values for the nuclear reaction rates used in astrophysics. He dealt with X-ray bursts, developed the Collapsar model for gamma-ray bursts and developed computer-aided supernova models, studied nucleosynthesis in supernovae and the development of massive stars in the pre-supernova stage (eight to 50 solar masses). He is also involved in NASA missions on gamma-ray astronomy.
He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2001 . In 2005 he received the Bruno Rossi Prize and the Hans A. Bethe Prize . In 2006 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .
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- with TA Weaver: The Evolution and explosion of massive stars. 2. Explosive hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis, Astrophys. J. Suppl., Vol. 101, 1995, pp. 181-235
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| SURNAME | Woosley, Stanford E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woosley, Stan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Texarkana , Texas |