Biography:Robert C. Duncan (astrophysicist)
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Robert Duncan is an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. With Christopher Thompson, he proposed and developed the theory of magnetars,[1] and was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize for this work in 2003.[2]
References
- ↑ Robert C. Duncan; Christopher Thompson (June 10, 1992). "Formation of Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars: Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts". Astronomical Journal 392 (1): L9–L13. doi:10.1086/186413. Bibcode: 1992ApJ...392L...9D. http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1992ApJ...392L...9D.
- ↑ "Rossi Prize Winners 2003: Robert Duncan, Christopher Thompson, & Chryssa Kouveliotou". High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2008-04-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20080406082614/http://www.aas.org/head/rossi/rossi.recip.html#S.