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James W. Truran

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American astrophysicist at University of Chicago

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James W. Truran
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Nuclear Physics
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#105
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#21
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Astrophysics
#262
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#292
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According to Wikipedia, James Wellington Truran Jr. was an American physicist, known for his research in nuclear astrophysics. Biography Truran graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. In 1966 he received his PhD in physics from Yale University. His PhD thesis entitled Thermonuclear reactions in supernova shock waves was supervised by Alastair Cameron. As a postdoc Truran was from 1965 to 1967 a research associate at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. At the physics department of Yeshiva University he was from 1967 to 1970 an assistant professor, from 1970 to 1972 an associate professor, and from 1972 to 1973 a full professor. For the academic year 1968–1969 he was a research fellow in physics at California Institute of Technology. From 1973 to 1991 he was a full professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For the academic year 1979–1980 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and held a visiting position at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. With the aid of a Humboldt Research Award he spent the academic year 1986–1987 at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. In 1991 he became a professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago, where he retired as professor emeritus.

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