John Papaloizou
John Papaloizou | |
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Applied Mathematics | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou
formation of planets. He received his D.Phil. in 1972 from the University of Sussex under the supervision of Roger J. Tayler
. The title of his thesis is The Vibrational Instability in Massive Stars.
He discovered the
Papaloizou-Pringle instability together with Jim Pringle in 1984.[1]
Papaloizou also made major contributions in various areas such as the radial-orbit instability, toroidal modes in stars and different instabilities in accretion disks.
The asteroid
17063 Papaloizou is named after John Papaloizou.[2]
Awards
2003 Fellow of the Royal Society[3]
References
- ^ Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 208, 15 June 1984, p. 721–750
- ^ JPL Small-Body Database Browser
- ^ "John Papaloizou".
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