James Lattimer

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Full Name	James Lattimer
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1950(1950-04-12)
Age	74
Birthplace	Marion
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

James Lattimer Biography

James Lattimer is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on April 12, 1950 in Marion, United States. In work that led to his PhD thesis, Lattimer and his advisor David N. Schramm first argued that the mergers of neutron stars and black holes would result in the ejection of neutron-rich matter in sufficient quantities to explain the origin of r-process elements such as gold and platinum. Later, with collaborators, he demonstrated decompressing neutron-star matter from both neutron star-black hole and neutron star-neutron star mergers would form a natural r-process that would match observed patterns. Mass ejection and r-process nucleosynthesis from decompression has been apparently observed in the aftermath of GW170817, the first merger of two neutron stars detected by LIGO/VIRGO. The inferred r-process mass seems sufficient that neutron star mergers are likely the dominant source of these nuclides.

Lattimer has made a number of fundamental contributions to the field of nuclear astrophysics, with a particular focus on neutron stars. One of his biggest impacts was modeling the birth of neutron stars from supernovae in 1986 with then-research assistant professor Adam Burrows. This came just six months before the closest supernova in modern history (SN 1987A, in the LMC). Their paper predicted the signature of neutrinos from supernovae that was subsequently validated by neutrino observations, from SN 1987A on Feb. 23, 1987.

James Lattimer Net Worth

James Lattimer is one of the richest University Teacher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James Lattimer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

James Lattimer (born 12 April 1950 in Marion, Indiana) is a nuclear astrophysicist who works on the dense nuclear matter equation of state and neutron stars.

Lattimer completed his BSc in 1972 at the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in 1976 at the University of Texas at Austin. After postdocs at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1979 he became a professor at Stony Brook University and in 2013 became a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy. He is an American Physical Society Fellow (2001), and has received a Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship (1999), a Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship (1982), and the Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory (1985). In 2015, Lattimer was awarded the Hans Bethe Prize for “outstanding theoretical work connecting observations of supernovae and neutron stars with neutrino emission and the equation of state of matter beyond nuclear density.”

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David Ranked on the list of most popular University Teacher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. James Lattimer celebrates birthday on April 12 of every year.