Astrophysicist Lars Bildsten earns another well-deserved honor: membership in the National Academy of Sciences

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Lars Bildsten (born 1964) is an American astrophysicist, best known for his work on the physics of stars, white dwarfs and their explosions as Type Ia supernovae. He is the sixth director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a professor in the UCSB Physics Department.
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Lars Bildsten Takes Over as Director of UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
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UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Lars Bildsten Named Director of Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics