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Laureate

Steven A. Balbus

Born 1953 · United States · Male

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Awards

  1. 2013

    Shaw Prize — Astronomy

    Physics

    For their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.