The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details
Charles Gammie
Affidivation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NSF Directorate:
MPS
Gender:
M
Award Year:
2001
Citation:
For being a leading young researcher in astrophysics whose work is focused on building computer codes able to calculate the energy released when hot gas is pulled around black holes, which may eventually explain the enormous but unexplained energy of quasars. His "digital demo room," developed for undergraduate students, provides multi-level knowledge of numerical modeling in stellar evolution, supernovae and galactic structure.