Robert Duncan (physicist)
- Robert Duncan (physicist)
Robert Duncan is an astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin. With Christopher Thompson, he formed the theory around magnetars, [cite journal | url = http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1992ApJ...392L...9D | author = Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson | title = Formation of Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars: Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts | journal = Astronomical Journal | volume = 392 | issue = 1 | date = June 10, 1992 | pages = pp. L9–L13 ] and was awarded the Bruno Rossi Prize for this work in 2003. [cite web | url = http://www.aas.org/head/rossi/rossi.recip.html#S | title = Rossi Prize Winners 2003: Robert Duncan, Christopher Thompson, & Chryssa Kouveliotou | publisher = High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society ]
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