Saul Rappaport is a
professor emeritus of
physics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rappaport became Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Physics in 1969 and became a full professor in 1981. From 1993 to 1995, he was head of the Astrophysics Division.
He received his
A.B. from
Temple University in 1963 and his
Ph.D. from
MIT in 1968.
His main research interest is in binary systems containing collapsed stars—
white dwarfs,
neutron stars (including
pulsar
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s), and
black hole
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s.
He was elected a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
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in 1989 ''"for major contributions to our understanding of the evolution of binary stellar systems containing a compact member and for the determination of the masses of neutron stars"''
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Selected publications
Some of his publications in the ''
Astrophysical Journal'', one of the major astrophysics journals, are:
*"A New Technique for Calculations of Binary Stellar Evolution, with Application to Magnetic Braking Rappaport S, et al. ''Astrophysical Journal'' 275 (2): 713-731 1983.
*"On the Evolutionary Status of Bright, Low-Mass X-ray Sources," Webrink, RF, Rappaport S, Savonije GJ, ''Astrophysical Journal'' 270 (2): 678-693 1983.
*"The Evolution of Highly Compact Binary Stellar-Systems," Rappaport S, et al. ''Astrophysical Journal'' 254 (2): 616-640 1982.
*"Formation and Evolution of Luminous Supersoft X-ray Sources," Rappaport S, et al. ''Astrophysical Journal'' 426 (2): 692-703 Part 1 May 10, 1994.
*"The Rings Around the Egg Nebula," Harpaz A, Rappaport S, Soker N, ''Astrophysical Journal'' 487 (2): 809-817 Part 1 Oct 1 1997.
*"Collisions of Free-floating Planets with Evolved Stars in Globular Clusters," Soker N, Rappaport S, Fregeau J, ''Astrophysical Journal'' 563 (1): L87-L90 Part 2 DEC 10 2001.
References
External links
Official faculty web page at MIT
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American astronomers
21st-century American physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society