Adrian Melott
Adrian Melott | |
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| Born | January 7, 1947 |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Known for | Cosmology, astrobiology, paleontology, and geophysics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin University of Pittsburgh Moscow State University (IREX Fellow) University of Chicago (Enrico Fermi Postdoctoral Fellow) University of Kansas |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama |
Adrian Lewis Melott (born January 7, 1947) is an American physicist. He is one of the pioneers of using large-scale computing to investigate the formation of large-scale structure in a Universe dominated by dark matter. He later turned his attention to an area he calls “astrobiophysics”, examining a variety of ways that external events in our galaxy may have influenced the course of life on Earth, including analysis of gamma-ray burst events.