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Péter Mészáros


Eberly Chair Professor Emeritus, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics

Director Emeritus, Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics

The Pennsylvania State University

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1972

Office: 504 Davey Lab;  Secretariat: 525 Davey Lab
Phone: +1 (814)-865-0418; Fax: +1 (814)-863-2842
Mailing Address: 
525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Email:
nnp (at) psu.edu


Affiliations:   National Academy of Sciences;  American Academy of Arts and Sciences;  Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Ctr. Multimessenger Astrophys.;  Ctr. Theor. & Obs. Cosmology;  Inst. Gravit. & Cosmos;  AMON;  SWIFT;

Thomson-Reuters citations of GRB work: ranked #1 ; the NRC 2010 department rankings:  AST: #3;  PHY: #7

Synopses of specific topics :

Cosmology and “Mészáros effect”

The GRB fireball shock model

The standard afterglow model