Tom Abel
For other people named Tom Abel, see Tom Abel (disambiguation).
Tom Abel (born 1970) is a German cosmologist who first simulated the collapse of a metal-free massive star that belongs to the first generation of stars in the Universe. This work was done in collaboration with Greg L. Bryan and Michael L. Norman and was published in Science magazine (2002, 295, 93). He currently works at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2000.
Additionally, he is an Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics.[1] He is currently acting director of KIPAC.
Background
Abel was born in rural Lower Bavaria, Germany.[2]
Work
His primary interests are:
- Primordial star formation
- Cosmological structure formation and reionization
- Astrophysical fluid dynamics
- Radiative transfer
References
- ↑ "What I do for Money". Stanford University. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ "Tom Abel » About Me". tomabel.org. Abel's personal website. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
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