Adrian Melott
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Adrian Lewis Melott (born January 7, 1947) is an American physicist. He is one of the pioneers of using large-scale computing to investigate the formation of large-scale structure in a Universe dominated by dark matter. He later turned his attention to an area he calls “astrobiophysics”, examining a variety of ways that external events in our galaxy may have influenced the course of life on Earth, including analysis of gamma-ray burst events.[1][2][3]
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Adrian Melott | |
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Born | (1947-01-07) January 7, 1947 (age 77) |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
Known for | Cosmology, astrobiology, paleontology, and geophysics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of Texas at Austin University of Pittsburgh Moscow State University (IREX Fellow) University of Chicago (Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow) University of Kansas |
Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama |
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