Tom Murphy (astrophysicist)

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Thomas ("Tom") W. Murphy, Jr. is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego and a member of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.

Career

Murphy received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 2000 and subsequently worked as a postdoc at the University of Washington . He was then appointed professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the coordinator of the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), which conducts experiments with lunar laser ranging from the Apache Point Observatory . His team managed to track down the missing Russian rover Lunochod 1 on the lunar surface. Current research areas are tests of general relativity and sustainable energy supply.

Murphy is best known for his blog "Do the Math", in which he "looks through the eyes of an astrophysicist at social issues such as energy production, climate change and economic growth ." He questions the notion of unlimited economic growth based on thermodynamic arguments and presents proposals for future energy supply and transport.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tom Murphy at UCSD
  2. ↑ Tom Murphy at CASS
  3. ↑ TW Murphy Jr, EG Adelberger, JBR Battat, CD Hoyle, NH Johnson, RJ McMillan, EL Michelsen, CW Stubbs, HE Swanson: "Laser Ranging to the Lost Lunokhod 1 Reflector". arxiv : 1009.5720 .
  4. ^ Energy on the Home Front . Article for the second American Physical Society conference on the physics of sustainable energy
  5. ↑ Tom Murphy: Time to be honest with ourselves about our looming energy risks . Interview with Chris Martenson in: energybulletin.net, May 15, 2012
  6. ↑ Translated from: Tom Murphy Interview: Resource Depletion is a Bigger Threat than Climate Change .
  7. ^ Galactic Scale Energy , July 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ Can Economic Growth Last? , July 14, 2011
  9. ↑ Category: Personal Energy by Do the Math
  10. ^ Post Index of Do the Math
personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murphy, Thomas W. Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century