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3 unusual facts about Simon White


Simon White

the University of Cambridge he was appointed in 1994 as a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching.

White is also Research Professor at the University of Arizona (1992), Guest Professor at the University of Durham (1995) Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (1994) and at the Astronomical Observatories of Shanghai (SHAO) (1999) and Beijing (BAO) (2001).

current standard model for the evolution of cosmic structure, the so-called ΛCDM model.


Navarro–Frenk–White profile

The Navarro–Frenk–White profile or NFW profile is a spatial mass distribution of dark matter fitted to dark matter haloes identified in N-body simulations by Julio Navarro, Carlos Frenk and Simon White.


see also

GADGET

Later, the code was continuously improved during postdocs of Volker Springel at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute, in collaboration with Simon White and Lars Hernquist.