Robert C. Duncan (astrophysicist) explained
Robert C. Duncan (Jr.) (born September 2, 1955) is an American astrophysicist now retired from the University of Texas at Austin.
Early life and education
Duncan was born in Pensacola, Florida, in 1955. He grew up in Houston and Boston, where his father played a key role in NASA's Apollo Project.[1] Duncan (Jr.) later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Dartmouth College in 1977 and a PhD in physics from Cornell University in 1986. He also studied at the University of Cambridge.[2] As a student, Duncan was a competitive runner[3] [4] and marathoner.[5]
Career
From 1986 to 1988, Duncan worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. With Christopher Thompson, he proposed and developed the theory of magnetars,[6] [7] and was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize for this work in 2003.[8] Duncan has written scientific research papers about neutron stars, supernovae, intergalactic gas clouds, neutrino emissions of very dense matter, MHD dynamos and related topics.[9]
Notes and References
- https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/11912/chapter/19 Robert C. Duncan | Memorial Tributes: Volume 11 |The National Academies Press
- Book: Duncan, Robert Clifton . Topics in the Theory of Neutron Star Cooling . 1986 . Cornell University . en.
- Web site: 2010-08-26 . 1976 . 2023-03-21 . HepsTrack.com . en.
- Web site: Auran . James D. . Dartmouth Outdistances Harriers, 25-30 News The Harvard Crimson . 2023-03-21 . api.thecrimson.com . en.
- Web site: ARRS - Runner: Robert C Duncan . 2023-03-21 . more.arrs.run.
- Robert C. Duncan . Christopher Thompson . amp . June 10, 1992 . Formation of Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars: Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts . Astronomical Journal . 392 . 1 . L9–L13 . 1992ApJ...392L...9D . 10.1086/186413.
- Book: Duncan . Robert C. . Thompson . Christopher . AIP Conference Proceedings . 1996-04-01 . Magnetars . High Velocity Neutron Stars . https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996AIPC..366..111D . 366 . 111–117 . 10.1063/1.50235. 1996AIPC..366..111D .
- Web site: Rossi Prize Winners 2003: Robert Duncan, Christopher Thompson, & Chryssa Kouveliotou . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080406082614/http://www.aas.org/head/rossi/rossi.recip.html#S . 2008-04-06 . High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
- https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=database%3A%20astronomy&q=author%3A(%22Duncan%2C%20Robert%20C.%22)&sort=citation_count%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0 Duncan, Robert C. NASA Astrophysics Data System, Citation-ranked list
