Background
Mészáros, Peter Istvan was born on July 15, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1968.
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Mészáros, Peter Istvan was born on July 15, 1943 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1968.
Master of Science in Physics, University Buenos Aires, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1972.
Research associate, Princeton (New Jersey) U. Observatory, 1972-1973;
research fellow Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (England) University, 1973-1975;
staff scientist, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Federal Republic of Germany, 1975-1983;
associate professor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1983-1987;
professor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 1987;
head department astronomy and astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, since 1993. Visiting scientist Institute Theoret. Physics University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995,consultant.
Visiting scientist National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1980-1982, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, 1982-1983, 90. Consultant Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, 1983-1987, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, since 1987, Tokyo Metropolitan U., 1990, Cambridge U., 1991.
( Neutron stars, the most extreme state of matter yet con...)
Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Astronomical Society (Executive Committee 1987-1989), International Astronomical Union.
Married Deborah Ann Runde, November 2, 1974. 1 child, Andor Istvan.