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Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay | |
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| Education | AB, Astrophysics and Physics, Harvard (1995) PhD, Planetary Science, Caltech (2002)[1] |
| Known for | Planetary impact physics |
| Awards | Uruy Prize (2009)[1] |
Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is an American astronomer. She was awarded the Uruy Prize in 2009.[2] Her work on shock-induced ice melting helped to show that liquid water is the most erosive fluid currently at work on the surface of Mars.[3]
As of 2015, she is a Professor at UC Davis[4] and Visiting Professor at Harvard, where she directs the Shock Compression Laboratory. One of the tools at the laboratory is a 40 mm cannon.[1] The shock lab is moving to Davis at the end of 2015. Her group has an experiment planned for the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratory to study shock-induced vaporization.[4]
Stewart-Mukhopadhyay proposed a version of the giant impact hypothesis in which an oblate Earth was slowed from a 2.3-hour long day, and allowed to become spherical, by an impact with the planet Theia.[5]
See also
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[edit]- ^ a b c http://eps.harvard.edu/people/sarah-t-stewart-mukhopadhyay
- ^ "Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science". Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Association. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ http://dps.aas.org/prizes/2009
- ^ a b http://mygeologypage.ucdavis.edu/stewart/
- ^ "Separated after birth: Scientists offer a new spin on the origins of Earth's moon", Harvard Gazette, October 17, 2012
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