Alar Toomre

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Alar Toomre is affiliated with the following schools: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Manchester

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Alar Toomre

Physics

#1154

World Rank

#1818

Historical Rank

#513

USA Rank

Astronomy

#145

World Rank

#346

Historical Rank

#82

USA Rank

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Alar Toomre

Mathematics

#3826

World Rank

#5555

Historical Rank

#1377

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#2247

World Rank

#2696

Historical Rank

#640

USA Rank

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Why Is Alar Toomre Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Alar Toomre is an American astronomer and mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toomre's research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies. He is a 1984 MacArthur Fellow.

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Alar Toomre's Published Works

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Published Works

On the gravitational stability of a disk of stars (1964) (2443)
Galactic Bridges and Tails (1972) (1863)
Some remarks on polar wandering (1969) (401)
Non-axisymmetric responses of differentially rotating disks of stars. (1966) (369)
On the Distribution of Matter Within Highly Flattened Galaxies. (1963) (282)
Theories of Spiral Structure (1977) (245)
GROUP VELOCITY OF SPIRAL WAVES IN GALACTIC DISKS. (1969) (220)
DYNAMICS OF THE BENDING OF THE GALAXY. (1969) (184)
On the interpretation of ring galaxies : the binary ring system II Hz4. (1976) (178)
Axisymmetric inertial oscillations of a fluid in a rotating spherical container (1969) (161)
On the 'Nearly Diurnal Wobble' of the Earth (1974) (115)
Some flattened isothermal models of galaxies (1982) (66)
Mergers and Some Consequences (1977) (51)
Gas-Hungry Sc Spirals (1990) (51)
On the Coupling of the Earth’s Core and Mantle During the 26,000-Year Precession (1966) (47)
Theories of Warps (1983) (45)
Violent tides between galaxies (1973) (20)
Gravitational interactions between galaxies (1974) (18)
On the pressure induced by the boundary layer on a flat plate in shear flow (1964) (14)
How Can it All be Stable (1974) (9)
Spiral Waves Caused by a Passage of the LMC (1970) (8)
The viscous secondary flow ahead of an infinite cylinder in a uniform parallel shear flow (1960) (7)
Dynamics of Astrophysical Discs: Non-axisymmetric disturbances in galactic discs (1989) (3)
What happened to M51 and M81 (1994) (1)
Gravitational Interactions Between Galaxies (invited Paper) (1974) (1)
18.04 Complex Variables with Applications, Fall 2003 (2003) (1)
On Peripheral Dynamics (1978) (1)
R0 from Exponential Disk Models (1972) (1)
A pulsating sphere in a rotating fluid (1959) (1)
V0 from Magellanic Cloud Orbits (obituary) (1972) (0)
R$sub 0$ FROM EXPONENTIAL DISK MODELS. (1972) (0)
Some historical remarks on Bertil Lindblad's work on galactic dynamics (1996) (0)
THEORIES OF SPIRAL STRUCTURE z2119 (1977) (0)
Star Clusters: Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters . Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988. xii, 180 pp., illus. $35; paper, $14.50. Princeton Series in Astrophysics. (1988) (0)
On Certain Forced Responses of a Differentially Rotating Disk of Stars. (1965) (0)
V$sub 0$ FROM MAGELLANIC CLOUD ORBITS. (1972) (0)
Tidally Interacting Galaxies as Radio Sources. (1971) (0)

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