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Bruce Allen

American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1959 · age 67

Bruce Allen is an American physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany, and founder and leader of the distributed volunteer computing project Einstein@Home project.

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2020Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave ScienceAward2001Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research AwardAward1981J.T. Knight PrizeAward1959Born11 May 1959

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Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science2020
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award2001
J.T. Knight Prize1981
Marshall Scholarship
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the Institute of Physics

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He is an honorary physics professor at Leibniz University Hannover, an adjunct physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and also the initiator / project leader of smartmontools hard disk utility.

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Born 1959 · age 67