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Simon White

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Simon David Manton White is a British-German astrophysicist born September 30, 1951, who was a director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics until his retirement in late 2019. The Navarro-Frenk-White profile used to describe the distribution of dark matter is named in part after him. He received the 2017 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

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Birth Year
1951 1
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Germany 1
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United Kingdom 1
Birthplace
Ashford, United Kingdom 1
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Physics 1
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Astrophysics 1
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Astronomy 1
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1. Simon White (Wikidata)
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United Kingdom
    Q145
  • P19 (place of birth): Ashford, United Kingdom
    Q725261
  • P27 (country of citizenship): Germany
    Q183
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