John F Hawley (1958 – 2021)

 

The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2013

 

is awarded in equal shares to

 

STEVEN A BALBUS

and

JOHN F HAWLEY

 

for their discovery and study of the magnetorotational instability, and for demonstrating that this instability leads to turbulence and is a viable mechanism for angular momentum transport in astrophysical accretion disks.

 

28 May 2013

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