His early pioneering research on the atmospheric dynamics of exoplanets (Showman & Guillot, 2002, Astron.
He developed eight different courses in the planetary sciences, including two completely new graduate courses, with course notes that are treasured by his students.
He was a renowned teacher who enjoyed explaining to his students the complicated details of planetary physics and hammering out ideas to solve research problems. Showman directly advised eleven graduate students and mentored many more across the disciplines of planetary science, atmospheric sciences and geosciences. He was recently named a Galileo Circle Fellow of the University of Arizona (2018) and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2019).ĭuring his career, Dr.
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Showman joined the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor in 2001 he was named full Professor in 2012. After two short postdoc stints at the University of Louisville and NASA Ames, Dr. at Caltech in 1999, with a dissertation on the atmosphere of Jupiter as well as the geophysics of its largest moon Ganymede. He studied physics at Stanford University, where he earned a B.S. His untimely passing has been felt widely in the international planetary science community which has lost an outstanding theorist, dedicated teacher of many graduate students, and a sought-after collaborator to a world-wide network of exoplanet astronomers.Īdam Showman was born on October 9, 1968 in Palo Alto, CA. Showman passed away unexpectedly on March 16, 2020, at his home in Tucson, AZ.
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