Bruce T. Draine

Draine in 2005 Bruce Thomas Draine (born November 19, 1947, in Kolkata) is an American astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.

He attended Swarthmore College from 1965 to 1969. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Ghana from 1969 to 1971, where he taught secondary school physics and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978. From 1979 to 1982 he was in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is currently an emeritus professor in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. His research involves the study of the interstellar medium, especially interstellar dust, photodissociation regions, and interstellar shock waves.

He is one of the authors (together with Piotr J. Flatau) of the public domain DDSCAT code based on the discrete dipole approximation which has application to light scattering by non-spherical particles and nanophotonics. Provided by Wikipedia
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    An Investigation of Disk Thickness in M51 from Hα, Paα, and Mid-infrared Power Spectra

    An Investigation of Disk Thickness in M51 from Hα, Paα, and Mid-infrared Power Spectra by Bruce G. Elmegreen, Daniela Calzetti, Angela Adamo, Karin Sandstrom, Daniel Dale, Varun Bajaj, Martha L. Boyer, Ana Duarte-Cabral, Ryan Chown, Matteo Correnti, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Bruce T. Draine, Brandt Gaches, John S. Gallagher III, Kathryn Grasha, Benjamin Gregg, Leslie K. Hunt, Kelsey E. Johnson, Robert Kennicutt Jr., Ralf S. Klessen, Adam K. Leroy, Sean Linden, Anna F. McLeod, Matteo Messa, Göran Östlin, Mansi Padave, Julia Roman-Duval, J. D. Smith, Fabian Walter, Tony D. Weinbeck

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