Steven Balbus

Steven Balbus
Balbus in 2016
Born (1953-11-23) 23 November 1953
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ThesisThe effects of thermal conduction in high temperature astrophysical gas dynamics (1981)
Websitewww2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/balbus

Steven Andrew Balbus FRS (born 23 November 1953) is an American astrophysicist who is the Savilian Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a senior research fellow at New College, Oxford. In 2013, he shared the Shaw Prize for Astronomy with John F. Hawley.