LC control no. | n 88110322 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Elmegreen, Bruce G. |
Variant(s) | Elmegreen, B. G. (Bruce G.) |
Associated country | Yorktown Heights (N.Y.) |
Address | bge@us.ibm.com |
Birth date | 1950-02-24 |
Place of birth | Milwaukee (Wis.) |
Field of activity | Astronomy Interstellar matter Stars--Formation Galaxies |
Affiliation | Thomas J. Watson IBM Research Center Columbia University Harvard University Princeton University University of Wisconsin--Madison |
Profession or occupation | Astronomers |
Found in | Handbook of astronomy, astrophysics and geophysics, 1988: CIP t.p. (Bruce G. Elmegreen, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights) Burton, W.B. The galactic interstellar medium, c1992: CIP t.p. (B.G. Elmegreen) From interstellar clouds to star-forming galaxies, 2016: page 247 (Bruce G. Elmegreen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY ; bge@us.ibm.com) Wikipedia web site, March 6, 2017: (Bruce Elmegreen, Bruce Gordon Elmegreen (born 24 February 1950) is an American astronomer. Elmegreen was born in Milwaukee, and received his bachelor's degree in 1971 from the University of Wisconsin--Madison and his PhD in 1975 from Princeton University in astrophysics under Lyman Spitzer. From 1975 to 1978 he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University. From 1978 to 1984 he was an assistant professor at Columbia University. Beginning in 1984 he has been employed at IBM doing research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His research deals with interstellar gas with a focus on star formation in gaseous nebulae and large-scale structure of spiral galaxies. Using computer model simulations, he proved the existence of standing waves in spiral galaxies) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Elmegreen> |
Associated language | eng |