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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Richard A. McCray</b> (* <a href="24._November" title="24. November">24. November</a> <a href="1937" title="1937">1937</a> in <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, <a href="Kalifornien" title="Kalifornien">Kalifornien</a>; † <a href="26._Oktober" title="26. Oktober">26. Oktober</a> <a href="2021" title="2021">2021</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) war ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> <a href="Astronom" title="Astronom">Astronom</a> und <a href="Astrophysik" title="Astrophysik">Astrophysiker</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>McCray studierte an der <a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> mit dem <a href="Bachelor" title="Bachelor">Bachelor</a>-Abschluss 1959 und wurde 1967 an der <a href="University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">University of California, Los Angeles</a> in theoretischer Physik promoviert. Als <a href="Post-Doktorand" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-Doktorand">Post-Doktorand</a> war er am <a href="California_Institute_of_Technology" title="California Institute of Technology">Caltech</a> und ab 1968 <a href="Assistant_Professor" title="Assistant Professor">Assistant Professor</a> am <a href="Harvard-College-Observatorium" title="Harvard-College-Observatorium">Harvard-College-Observatorium</a>. Ab 1971 war er am <i>Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics</i> der <a href="University_of_Colorado_Boulder" title="University of Colorado Boulder">University of Colorado</a> in <a href="Boulder_(Colorado)" title="Boulder (Colorado)">Boulder</a>, wo er <i>George Gamow Distinguished Professor</i> in Astrophysik ist.
</p><p>Er war Gastwissenschaftler am <a href="Goddard_Space_Flight_Center" title="Goddard Space Flight Center">Goddard Space Flight Center</a> der <a href="National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="National Aeronautics and Space Administration">NASA</a> (1983), an der Universität Peking und der Nanjing-Universität (1987), am <a href="Space_Telescope_Science_Institute" title="Space Telescope Science Institute">Space Telescope Science Institute</a> (1988), der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (1990) und der Universität Berkeley (1997).
</p><p>McCray befasst sich mit der Theorie der Dynamik interstellaren Gases, der Theorie kosmischer Röntgenquellen und speziell der Bildung interstellarer Blasen durch Sternenwinde und <i>Superblasen</i>, die durch Supernova-Explosionen in den Gasscheiben von Galaxien gebildet werden sowie speziell mit dem Mechanismus der Umwandlung von Röntgenemission in den optischen und UV-Bereich bei Neutronensternen und schwarzen Löchern. Er studierte und modellierte die Evolution des Spektrums von <a href="SN_1987A" title="SN 1987A">SN 1987A</a> und es gelangen ihm einige korrekte Vorhersagen über Ereignisse am Ringsystem von SN 1987 A. Neben theoretischen Rechnungen und Computersimulationen verwendet er das Hubble Space Teleskop oder das Chandra Röntgenobservatorium.
</p><p>1990 erhielt er den <a href="Dannie-Heineman-Preis_f%C3%BCr_Astrophysik" title="Dannie-Heineman-Preis für Astrophysik">Dannie-Heineman-Preis für Astrophysik</a>. 1975 war er <a href="Guggenheim-Stipendium" title="Guggenheim-Stipendium">Guggenheim Fellow</a>. Er war Mitglied der <a href="National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> (1989).
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jila.colorado.edu/~dick/">Biografie</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jila.colorado.edu/news-events/news/passing-jila-fellow-richard-dick-mccray"><i>The Passing of JILA Fellow Richard "Dick" McCray.</i></a> In: <i>colorado.edu.</i> 28. Oktober 2021,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 3. November 2021</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+McCray&rft.title=The+Passing+of+JILA+Fellow+Richard+%22Dick%22+McCray&rft.description=The+Passing+of+JILA+Fellow+Richard+%22Dick%22+McCray&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fjila.colorado.edu%2Fnews-events%2Fnews%2Fpassing-jila-fellow-richard-dick-mccray&rft.date=2021-10-28&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/52788.html"><i>Richard A. McCray.</i></a> In: <i>nasonline.org.</i><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 3. November 2021</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+McCray&rft.title=Richard+A.+McCray&rft.description=Richard+A.+McCray&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fmember-directory%2Fdeceased-members%2F52788.html&rft.language=en"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Lebensdaten nach <i>American Men and Women of Science</i>, Thomson Gale 2004</span>
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