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Simon White
AstronomySimon White is a recipient of the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2024) from United Kingdom. They have received 4 major awards in total. Their primary field is Astronomy.
United KingdomMax Planck Institute for Astrophysics
4
Major Awards
626
Publications
99,518
Citations
124
h-index
348
i10-index
159
Avg Citations/Paper
Awards & Recognition
Career History
Emeritus Director
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Garching, DE
Career Path
Award progression over time
Apex Elite Prestigious
Co-winners
Shared the same award in the same year
Academy Memberships
National Academy of Sciences (US)
Top Publications
emerge – an empirical model for the formation of galaxies since z ∼ 10
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2018358 citations
Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude
Nature2020216 citations
The Cluster-EAGLE project: global properties of simulated clusters with resolved galaxies
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2017210 citations
The Hydrangea simulations: galaxy formation in and around massive clusters
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2017201 citations
A dynamically cold disk galaxy in the early Universe
Nature2020165 citations
Related Laureates
Other winners of the same award(s)
RW
Rainer Weiss
Hughes Medal (2019)
KS
Kip S. Thorne
Max Planck Medal (2018)
RD
Ronald Drever
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
CB
Charles Bennett
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2023)
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Rashid Sunyaev
Bruce Medal (2022)
VK
Victoria Kaspi
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2022)
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2022)
Andrei Linde
Sakurai Prize (2020)
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