Blackman Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Eric G. Blackman
, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. This is an honor accorded each year to less than one half of a percent of the members of the Society, which is the nation's leading professional association in physics.
Prof. Blackman, a theoretical astrophysicist, was elected for his contributions to the study of astrophysical plasmas, specifically for the progress he has made in many long-standing and notoriously difficult problems involving the generation and reconnection of astrophysical magnetic fields. These are subjects fundamental and pervasive in astrophysics, 95% of the universe being composed of magnetized plasma, and thus Prof. Blackman's work has underlain progress in a wide variety of astronomical fields, such as star and planet formation, accretion disks around black holes and neutron stars, and the dynamics of interstellar and intergalactic matter.
Article submitted by:
Dan M. Watson
9/30/05; 5:43:58 PM