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James Lattimer is a nuclear astrophysicist who works on the dense nuclear equation of state and neutron stars. He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.〔(Stony Brook Astronomy webpage )〕 He is an American Physical Society Fellow (2001), and received a Guggenheim (J.S.) Fellowship (1999), Sloan (Alfred P.) Fellowship (1982), and Fullam (Ernest F.) Award from Dudley Observatory (1985) 〔(Department of Physics and Astronomy Award List, Stony Brook University )〕 In 2015, Lattimer was awarded the Hans Bethe Prize〔(APS Hans A. 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." 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 〔(based on citations from the astrophysical data service )〕 was modeling the birth of neutron stars from supernovae in 1986 with then-postdoc Adam Burrows. This came just a year before the closest supernovae in modern history (SN 1987A, in the LMC). Their paper 〔(Lattimer and Burrows, 1986, ApJ, 307, 178 )〕 predicted the signature of neutrinos from supernovae that was subsequently validated by neutrino observations from SN 1987A taken by detectors taking data at the time. Most recently, Lattimer and collaborators discovered the first direct evidence for superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron star interiors by examining the cooling of neutron stars〔(NASA Press Release )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Lattimer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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