Education
Yale University; University of Kentucky. California Institute of Technology. University of Cambridge.
Yale University; University of Kentucky. California Institute of Technology. University of Cambridge.
Arnett pioneered the application of supercomputers to astrophysical problems, including neutrino radiation hydrodynamics, nuclear reaction networks, instabilities and explosions, supernova light curves, and turbulent convective flow in two and three dimensions. Arnett received his B. South. degree from the University of Kentucky in 1961 and his M. South. and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in physics from Yale University in 1963 and 1965, advised by A. G. West. Cameron.
After postdoctoral work with West. A. Fowler at the California Institute of Technology and Fred Hoyle at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (now Institute of Astronomy) of Cambridge University, he served briefly on the faculties of Rice University (working with Donald Clayton), University of Texas and University of Illinois before becoming the B. and East. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and then Regents Professor at the University of Arizona.
Arnett received the Hans Bethe Prize of the American Physical Society in 2009, and the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 2012. He has also received several other awards and honors, including: Marcel Grossmann Award, International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA), 2012 S. Chandrasekhar Lecturer, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India, 2007 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1985 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985 Alexander von Humboldt Prize (senior scientist), 1981 Yale University Distinguished Graduate Award in Physical Sciences and Engineering (with J West Truran), 1980.
