Tom Abel
Academic
1970 –
Who is Tom Abel?
Tom Abel is a 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. 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.
⁕Primordial star formation
⁕Cosmological structure formation and reionization
⁕Astrophysical fluid dynamics
⁕Radiative transfer
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- Born
- Sep 3, 1970
Straubing - Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Education
- Master of Arts, University of Regensburg
( - 1998) - Doctorate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
( - 2000)
- Master of Arts, University of Regensburg
- Employment
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
(2004 - ) - Associate Professor, Stanford University
(2004 - ) - Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
(2002 - 2004) - Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
(2004 - 2004)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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on July 23, 2013
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