Tom_Abel_(cosmologist)

Tom Abel (cosmologist)

Tom Abel (cosmologist)

German cosmologist

For other people named Thomas Abel, see Thomas 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 received his Doctor of Philosophy from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2000.

He is a Professor of Physics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and from 2013 to 2018 served as Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.[1]

His work with visualization expert Ralf Kaehler has been seen in many planetaria shows including "The Dark Universe" (2013) [2]

Background

Abel was born in rural Lower Bavaria, Germany.[3]

Work

His primary interests are:

References

  1. [1]
    "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). tomabel.org. Abel's personal website. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. [2]
    "New planetarium show lights up the dark". symmetrymagazine.org. Fermilab/SLAC. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Tom Abel ยป About Me". tomabel.org. Abel's personal website. Retrieved 11 September 2015.


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