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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