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Name
  
David Merritt


Role
  
American football player

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Education
  
North Carolina State University

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David Merritt is an American astrophysicist and professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He received his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto. His fields of specialization include dynamics and evolution of galaxies, supermassive black holes, and computational astrophysics.

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David Merritt is a former Chair of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society. He is a founding member of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at RIT.

His scientific contributions include Osipkov-Merritt models, black hole spin flips, the Leonard-Merritt mass estimator, the M-sigma relation, stellar systems with negative temperatures, and the Schwarzschild Barrier.

Awards and honors

  • Garfinkel Lectureship, Yale University (2014)

    • Books by David Merritt

  • Merritt, D. Dynamics and Evolution of Galactic Nuclei (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 551 pp., 2013
  • Ferrarese, L. and Merritt, D. (2002). Supermassive Black Holes. Physics World, June 2002, p. 41.

    • Philosophical Articles by David Merritt

  • Merritt, D. (2017). Cosmology and Convention. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, February 2017, p. 41.

    • Videos by David Merritt

  • Schwarzschild Barrier

    • References

    David Merritt Wikipedia
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