Frank Shu
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican astronomer (1943-2023)
Frank Hsia-San Shu was a Chinese-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and author. He served as a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego.
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Ben ShneidermanAlso won honorary doctor of the State University of New York at Stony Brook
Geoffrey MarcyAlso won The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
I. Bernard CohenAlso won Harvard Centennial MedalGeorge HerbigAlso won Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
Bohdan PaczyńskiAlso won Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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Frank Hsia-San Shu was a Chinese-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and author. He served as a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego. He is best known for proposing the density wave theory to explain the structure of spiral galaxies, and for describing a model of star formation, where a giant dense molecular cloud collapses to form a star.
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