Everything about Frank Shu totally explained
Frank Shu (born in
Kunming,
China), is an
astrophysicist,
author and
professor of
astronomy at the
University of California, Berkeley and the
university president of the
National Tsing Hua University.
He completed his BS in
physics in
1963 at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still an undergraduate, he developed (with C. C. Lin) the still-leading theory governing spiral arms in galaxies, known as the
spiral density wave theory. He later received his PhD in
astronomy in
1968 at
Harvard University.
Shu is known for pioneering theoretical work in a diverse set of fields of astrophysics, including the origin of
meteorites, the birth and early
evolution of stars and the structure of
spiral galaxies. One of his most highly-cited works is a
1977 seminal paper describing the collapse of a dense
giant molecular cloud core which forms a
star. This model (commonly referred to as the ``inside-out" collapse model or the "singular isothermal sphere" model) helped provide the basis for much later work on the
formation of stars and
planetary systems, although it has been criticized for its shortcomings. Shu has also performed calculations on the structure of planet-forming disks around very young stars, the jets and winds that these stars and their disks generate, and the production of
chondrules, inclusions in
meteorites. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with his postdocs and graduate students, many of whom have gone on to successful academic careers in their own right.
He served as
chair of the astronomy department of UC Berkeley from
1984 until
1988, and has held faculty appointments at the
SUNY Stony Brook and UC Berkeley. He was president of the National Tsing Hua University from February 2002 until February 2006. He also is a university
professor emeritus at UC Berkeley. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences in the
United States and the
Academia Sinica in
Taiwan.
He is the author of several books, among them
Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy (University Science Books, 1982) which has become one of the standard
textbooks for
undergraduate astrophysics courses all over the world.
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