James M. Bardeen

James Maxwell Bardeen ( born May 9, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American theoretical astrophysicist.

Bardeen studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and in 1965 received his doctorate at Caltech with Richard Feynman in physics. After that, he conducted research at Caltech and the University of California, Berkeley, before he became Assistant Professor in 1966 and later associate professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. In 1974 he became Associate Professor and later Professor of Physics at Yale University and in 1976 professor at the University of Washington.

He deals with the astrophysics of black holes and accretion disks, the dynamics of spiral galaxies, developing large structures in cosmology in cosmological perturbation theory (1980 ) and numerical relativity. From 1968 to 1972 he was Sloan Fellow. In 1977 he was Fairchild Fellow at Caltech. In 2012 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

James Bardeen is married since 1968 and has two sons.

Writings

• With Brandon Carter, Stephen Hawking: The four laws of black hole mechanics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Volume 31, 1973, 161-170
• Gauge - invariant cosmological perturbations, Phys. Rev. D, Volume 22, 1980, pp. 1882-1905