Biography:George M. Fuller
George Michael Fuller (born December 25, 1953, in Los Angeles) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his research on nuclear astrophysics involving weak interactions, neutrino flavor-mixing, and quark matter, as well as the hypothetical nuclear matter.[1][2]
Education and career
He graduated in physics with a BS in 1976 and a PhD in 1981 from California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[1] His PhD thesis entitled Nuclear weak interaction rates during stellar evolution and collapse was supervised by William A. Fowler.[3] Fuller was from 1981 to 1983 a Robert R. McCormick Fellow at the University of Chicago (where he worked with Schramm and Arnett) and from 1983 to 1984 a postdoctoral visiting research astrophysicist at UC Santa Cruz's Lick Observatory (where he worked with Woosley). Fuller was from 1985 to 1986 a research assistant professor at the University of Washington's Institute for Nuclear Theory and from 1986 to 1988 a staff member in the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) astrophysics group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In the department of physics of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) he was from 1988 to 1992 an associate professor and is since 1992 a full professor. At UCSD he is now a distinguished professor of physics and the director of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Science (CASS).[2] He was one of six UCSD scientists (including Brian Keating) involved in the early stages of the international collaboration for the POLARBEAR experiment.[4]
Fuller's work has revolved around the interplay of the weak interaction, nuclei, and gravitation in the cosmos. The recent focus of his work has been on neutrino physics, in particular the role of neutrino mass and flavor mixing in the early universe and in core collapse supernovae, the synthesis of the light and heavy nuclei, and cosmology.[1]
He was elected in 1994 a fellow of the American Physical Society.[5] In 2013 he was awarded the Hans A. Bethe Prize with citation:
For outstanding contributions to nuclear astrophysics, especially his seminal work on weak interaction rates for stellar evolution and collapse and his pioneering research on neutrino flavor-mixing in supernovae.[1]
Selected publications
Articles
- Fuller, G. M.; Fowler, W. A.; Newman, M. J. (1982). "Stellar weak interaction rates for intermediate mass nuclei. III - Rate tables for the free nucleons and nuclei with A = 21 to A = 60". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 48: 279. doi:10.1086/190779. Bibcode: 1982ApJS...48..279F. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8b214033. (over 500 citations)
- Fuller, G. M.; Fowler, W. A.; Newman, M. J. (1985). "Stellar weak interaction rates for intermediate-mass nuclei. IV - Interpolation procedures for rapidly varying lepton capture rates using effective log (Ft)-values". The Astrophysical Journal 293: 1. doi:10.1086/163208. Bibcode: 1985ApJ...293....1F. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7q569568. (over 500 citations)
- Alcock, C.; Fuller, G. M.; Mathews, G. J. (1987). "The quark-hadron phase transition and primordial nucleosynthesis". The Astrophysical Journal 320: 439. doi:10.1086/165560. Bibcode: 1987ApJ...320..439A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vd2v2fc.
- Fuller, G. M.; Mathews, G. J.; Alcock, C. R. (1988). "Quark-hadron phase transition in the early Universe: Isothermal baryon-number fluctuations and primordial nucleosynthesis". Physical Review D 37 (6): 1380–1400. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.37.1380. PMID 9958827. Bibcode: 1988PhRvD..37.1380F. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9qb0f33k.
- Qian, Yong-Zhong; Fuller, George M.; Mathews, Grant J.; Mayle, Ron W.; Wilson, James R.; Woosley, S. E. (1993). "Connection between flavor-mixing of cosmologically significant neutrinos and heavy element nucleosynthesis in supernovae". Physical Review Letters 71 (13): 1965–1968. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1965. PMID 10054549. Bibcode: 1993PhRvL..71.1965Q. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57f707gh.
- Shi, Xiangdong; Fuller, George M. (1999). "New Dark Matter Candidate: Nonthermal Sterile Neutrinos". Physical Review Letters 82 (14): 2832–2835. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2832. Bibcode: 1999PhRvL..82.2832S. (over 750 citations)
- Sneden, Christopher; Cowan, John J.; Ivans, Inese I.; Fuller, George M.; Burles, Scott; Beers, Timothy C.; Lawler, James E. (2000). "Evidence of Multiple [CLC][ITAL]r[/ITAL][/CLC]-Process Sites in the Early Galaxy: New Observations of CS 22892−052". The Astrophysical Journal 533 (2): L139–L142. doi:10.1086/312631. PMID 10770709.
- Abazajian, Kevork; Fuller, George M.; Tucker, Wallace H. (2001). "Direct Detection of Warm Dark Matter in the X‐Ray". The Astrophysical Journal 562 (2): 593–604. doi:10.1086/323867. Bibcode: 2001ApJ...562..593A. (over 600 citations)
- Duan, Huaiyu; Fuller, George M.; Qian, Yong-Zhong (2006). "Collective neutrino flavor transformation in supernovae". Physical Review D 74 (12): 123004. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.123004. Bibcode: 2006PhRvD..74l3004D.
- Duan, Huaiyu; Fuller, George M.; Qian, Yong-Zhong (2007). "Simple picture for neutrino flavor transformation in supernovae". Physical Review D 76 (8): 085013. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.085013. Bibcode: 2007PhRvD..76h5013D.
- Duan, Huaiyu; Fuller, George M.; Qian, Yong-Zhong (2010). "Collective Neutrino Oscillations". Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 60: 569–594. doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104524. Bibcode: 2010ARNPS..60..569D. (over 500 citations)
- Patwardhan, Amol V.; Fuller, George M.; Kishimoto, Chad T.; Kusenko, Alexander (2015). "Diluted equilibrium sterile neutrino dark matter". Physical Review D 92 (10): 103509. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.103509. Bibcode: 2015PhRvD..92j3509P.
- Grohs, Evan B.; Richard Bond, J.; Cooke, Ryan J.; Fuller, George M.; Meyers, Joel; Paris, Mark W. (2019). "Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Neutrino Cosmology". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 51 (3): 412. Bibcode: 2019BAAS...51c.412G.
- Takhistov, Volodymyr; Fuller, George M.; Kusenko, Alexander (2021). "Test for the Origin of Solar Mass Black Holes". Physical Review Letters 126 (7): 071101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.071101. PMID 33666480. Bibcode: 2021PhRvL.126g1101T.
Books
- Mezzacappa, Anthony, ed (2005). Open Issues in Core Collapse Supernova Theory. Proceedings from the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, 22–24 June 2004 — vol. 14. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-270-344-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=4OlgDQAAQBAJ.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "2013 Hans A. Bethe Prize Recipient Fuller, George M. Fuller". http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Fuller&first_nm=George&year=2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "George Fuller". http://casswww.ucsd.edu/index.php/faculty:Gfuller.
- ↑ "George Michael Fuller". https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=455408.
- ↑ "UCSD's POLARBEAR experiment is moving to its permanent location in the Atacama Desert, Chile". September 9, 2010. https://physics.ucsd.edu/News/Story/170.
- ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1994&unit_id=&institution=University+of+California%2C+San+Diego. (search on year=1994 and institution=University of California, San Diego)
External links
- "Faculty Profile: George M. Fuller". http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/fac_staff/fac_profile/faculty_description.php?person_id=78.
- "George Fuller "Intuition and Common Sense Foiled Again"". UC-HiPACC. July 29, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0DTHCE6uu8.
- "The Mysterious Neutrinos Team Up with Gravitation to Rule the Cosmos ▸ George Fuller (UCSD)". Kavli Institute for Theoretial Physics. March 26, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SceEvTUPaRw.
- "Overview of Supernova Neutrinos ▸ George Fuller (UCSD)". Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. March 31, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMg2-m-LaNc.
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